take notice. her of being drawn in a tough world cup group off of. brazil but it's really story up bought well you know the 24th so you bridge the knockout stage so one good result i can continue their journey here in france most of their goals come from khadija sure who's played in the american league but it's a touch now and i think the world cup secures her a lucrative move to european football 3 of her brothers have died in gang violence in jamaica but this is a team full of spirit and. what makes our team so great is that we're the perfect example of our country's motto which is out of many one people social media spreading the word which really helps and getting our message across that what we're doing is really a big deal and definitely an attacking. physicality. and hopefully we can kind of

bring a more of a organization and a discipline to our play but all i'm thinking about is that we're going there for 9 points and i said this is not the end of a journey it's always been so you know. it's going to. be proved that there's more than sprinters in jamaica is a serious women's football. league al-jazeera that you might can training company. and if you're one of the millions of people worldwide obsessed with not telling you many to think about rushing your supplies that's because workers at the world's biggest not in a factory have gone on strike 160 staff members of walked off the job to demand better pay and improve working conditions at the site in france the facility in normandy produces 600000 jobs on the tele every day. although he was of course on our website there is a new screen the address al jazeera dot com. part

of a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera sudan's opposition aligned doctors group says 60 people were killed in monday's crackdown in khartoum the opposition has rejected the military's plan for election in 9 months time saying it won't be free or fair or un secretary tony of good television is calling for an independent investigation into the deaths in sudan the polish ambassador spoke on behalf of 8 e.u. states following a closed door security council meeting but failed to reach agreement do you need. to see. a point that government and call for elections to short period of time is of great concern will support the people of sudan in search for and i greet and 30 transition led by civilians and for them to establish the conditions for elections which have to be free and. we call for greed transfer

of power to a civilian government. by the people of sudan here's president as promised what he called a phenomenal trade deal for a post brags that britain donald trump held talks with the outgoing prime minister to resume a during the 2nd day of his state visit but he seemed to ignore friction of a dealings with chinese telecom giant who are living that a major place. it's been 2 years in saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain began a blockade on qatar claiming that doha was a supporter of terrorism it's an accusation that doha strongly denies qatar said dialogue can bring about a peaceful settlement of the dispute. australian police have raided the offices of the national broadcaster a.b.c. there were a series of stories from 2017 on killings allegedly carried out by australian special forces in afghanistan the a.b.c. says it stands by its journalists in that the raid raises concerns over freedom of

the press on tuesday police into the home of news corp sunday political editor of a worksheet published last year on plans to expand domestic surveillance. in the u.s. state of florida former police officer has been arrested for threatening to confront a gunman during a mass shooting at a high school last year the officer was working as a security guard at the school when a gunman killed 17 people last february. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after listening post station thanks so much about that. a horrific crime that shocked the world 51 people killed at mosques in christchurch new zealand what i want to investigate people who are could have done more to prevent this massacre on al-jazeera. u.s. officials charged week you think sound caution with violating the message and i signed 270 years question asked my permission not to follow the law shows the work of just

about every what is what is whistle blowing and what is spine. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week the u.s. department of justice raises the stakes in its case against wiki leaks is julian assange john trial or is american journalism is real and the documentation of palestinian memory the archives it keeps under lock and key beijing versus washington many american companies have been established in china and then very profitable and trade wars turn into anchor wars and. some of the hunger games fasting and furious for ramadan 7 weeks ago when julian assange of wiki leaks was dragged out of that embassy in london headed for possible extradition to the united states the sites editor christian crabs and told us the

legal charges waiting for him in the u.s. were just the tip of the iceberg that there would be more coming and last week he was proven correct u.s. prosecutors have expanded the indictment against the sanj by another 17 counts is maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years and the u.s. department of justice is going after him under a different law and now the espionage act that law has been used against whistleblowers before wiki leaks source chelsea manning included but never against a publisher the alarm bells and. from mainstream media organizations that fear the press that such a prosecution would set have been going off ever since the a sanch case isn't really about him or wiki leaks anymore it has implications serious ones for journalists just about everywhere our starting point this week is washington d.c. .

this indictment all 37 pages and 18 charges in it is the u.s. department of justice putting its cards on the table laying out it should julian assange founder of wiki leaks having been expelled from the ecuadorian embassy in london be extradited to the united states then he will be tried under the espionage act it is ironic that the charges also serve as a different kind of indictment is he a criminal or easy a journalist of all those journalists and news outlets all the alleged experts and legal analysts who initially argued that the case against the sand was his to fight alone so you really you really think we all say we are the journalist you think we have it wrong and that he is actually not a pariah we should be praising him and that there were no implications for more conventional news organizations because the real indictment provides primary facie evidence to the contrary for about 5 decades it's been well understood since the

pentagon papers case that the u.s. constitution and specifically the 1st amendment of the constitution protects the receipt and publication of government secrets and this is the 1st time the government has brought a charge under the $917.00 world war one era espionage act which is supposed to cover spying not disclosing information to journalists it's the 1st time that the government has brought charges under the espionage act based exclusively on the receipt and publication of government secrets this would foreclose and in fact obstruct all kinds of journal. throughout the united states and from other countries in the world there is no legally meaningful difference between the work that wiki leaks in gauged in and the work that the new york times or the washington post engaged in and in fact we know this to be true because president barack obama's administration declined to pursue a prosecution against wiki leaks back in 2013 they were faced with something called

the new york times' problem which was if they prosecuted wiki leaks then they would essentially be saying that they had the authority to pursue and prosecute a reporter or a news editor at the new york times. when the department of justice announced the indictment it held a closed door briefing for reporters on the record but off camera the head of the department's national security division was widely quoted on julian assange has journalistic credentials the department to seriously the role of journalists in our democracy he said it is not and never has been the department's policy to target them for reporting but julian assange is no journalist the question about whether to in their silence the journalist or not is irrelevant the 1st amendment does not the stow upon journalists a certain set of rights they bestow everybody those rights whether they call themselves a journalist or not luckily we live in

a country where the government does not license journalists and i think everyone can agree that donald trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't and the d.o.j. has highlighted a narrow set of facts that distinguish truly innocent and wiki leaks from traditional responsible journalists. and those include the alleged agreement to crack a government password and the irresponsible publication of the names of human sources neither of those things are activities that journalists would typically. however the indictment includes charges that relate to the solicitation receipt and the publication of classified information and those are things that good national security reporters do every day. the use of the espionage act by the department of justice galvanized media outlets alarmed at the implications not for julian assange and for themselves the washington post called the case

a blueprint for making journalists into felons the new york times editorial board said the indictment aims at the heart of the 1st amendment and the guardian's former editor called the charges a grave threat to free media all that pushback felt like too little too late julian assange has been treated like a pariah by those same news outlets take the new york times in 2010 the times the u.k. is guardian and germany's there should be legal all collaborated with wiki leaks resulting in the publication of the iraq war locke's it was big news but on day 2 of that story the times ran a lengthy profile piece on a sandwich describing him as imperious dictatorial saying he was given to delusional grandchild it was an odd way to treat a collaborator on one of the paper's biggest stories in decades. and when essential later sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london saying he feared for his

freedom the times as well as the guardian failed in their editorials to come to his defense the sexual assault allegations in sweden may have affected their thinking but anyone familiar with that case and the numerous irregularities in the prosecution's handling of it would have to be suspicious of the motives at play and even now with all the a sanj indictments out there those news outlets are clearly more concerned with the possible legal precedents affecting them than they are about the fate of their one time source. media organizations that have reacted to this with alarm have done so with a full appreciation of the signal that this indictment sends to the press you can be critical of julian assange but there may be many good reasons to take issue with the way that assad has conducted himself and the way that wiki leaks has released information to the public but the charges brought against him in this indictment

sweep much more broadly into the realm of typical journalistic practice if media organizations can do it all over again i would suggest that they go back to 2010 when the grand jury was 1st m. paneled against wiki leaks and they speak out loudly against the obama administration pursuing this dissident media organization substantially documents because what was happening back then was laying the groundwork for investigations that could target more traditional media organizations whether they were based in the united states or outside of the united states. the rise of wiki leaks is attributable not only to the advent of technology but also to changes in u.s. government policy. since the $911.00 attacks in 2001 the american defense and intelligence establishment have gone on a classification binge in the name of national security more and more material

field reports assessments interagency communications the kind that used to be available to the public have now been classified an organization like wiki leaks that makes no secret that it's in the business of stealing secrets has plenty to work with and there's a market out there millions of clicks to be had that news outlets are well aware of and the american authorities are to. what they are essentially trying to do here is change that dynamic they're saying we're going to prosecute julius ons for publishing classified secrets but you know we may not stop there that our court systems have this precedent and then can be used against other news organizations and this is why many people are saying that this is really just a stalking horse for the trump administration to go after other journalists and without the receipt and publication of classified information without the free flow

of that information to the public many of the most important national security stories of the past 5 decades including the pentagon papers but also including torture of post 911 i think nasser villains after 911 all these stories could not have been written without legal protection. for reporters access to classified information. and occasionally publishing. discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers marcella. marcella this past wednesday we saw a trade war the one between the u.s. and china turned into a television spectacle and the actors involved weren't just moderating this debate they were in fact debating so let's start with the channel's involved. yes well the debate pitted an anchor for fox's business channel trish regan against lucian of

china's state owned english language broadcaster c g t m for weeks these 2 had been trading tweets about tariffs trade wars and technology eventually regan challenging you to a live show down the format was far from journalistic with these 2 presenters are going in effect on behalf of their respective governments in washington and beijing how do american businesses operate in china is there a risk for having their property their ideas their hard work you have to ask american businesses whether they want to come to china or whether they find coming to china and cooperating with chinese businesses has not been profitable or not and they will they will tell you their answers as far as i understand many american companies have been established in china and the very profitable and the great so you have 2 anchors are doing a surrogate spokespeople for their respective governments how did this program go down in china before the debates a spokesperson for china's foreign ministry big event asking everyone to watch it

because you know in china we have a saying the truth becomes clearer through debates it was a rare opportunity to have beijing position on an ongoing trade dispute broadcast on an american channel you ssion was an obvious choice for the chinese side since she's a reputation for being scornful of western media coverage on china now that the audiences get anything out of it soft to say the debate went on for 60 minutes and reagan and knew had nothing much to add on the trade wars so what's already been reported but it'll be interesting and maybe a bit disturbing to see if this kind of debates network versus network grows more common ok thanks for some. turning now to a story about memory our knowledge of the past is produced and kept hidden in a place where history and its narration is highly contested israel and palestine for years material that could reveal details about israel's treatment of

palestinians has been sealed inside the country state and military archives under the pretext of security or privacy more than 98 percent of those documents are classified they're under lock and key it's a form of censorship that has been criticized not just by palestinians but by the former chief archivist of israel as well historians and journalists say the policy of censoring material in the archives exposes the deep insecurities that israel has about its past with archivists acting as the gatekeepers of history for palestinians it's part of a wider trend of cultural or racial and historical denial that beginning before 1948 has gone hand in hand with the regular theft and appropriation of not just their land but of their story the listening post often now on the silencing of palestinian history in israel's archives.

the palestinian displaced. new rating the past is a constant struggle which is by design because field in israel occupies the library a hidden palestinian story entire chapters of history that were looted from palestinian institutions and home. after the palestinian people were expelled from their homes israeli forces came in and quite methodically proceeded to seize all of the contents in their houses it was done in such a way that to this day we don't have a complete id.