are looking to finalize a solution right now and we are in a wait and see. obstacle can too many people on the ground. and the indications are that the very same people who 3 weeks ago were saying don't jump in the fray this is a battle between the generals are now saying well. this arrogance cannot be allowed to stand hundreds of and i rested their genius sending out messages that they were looking for a fight. and i believe that the people that. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tariq nasr tarik following up on our lead story from last week on climate change the 16 year old activist the swede gretta tom burke very much the face of this story being subjected to a lot of criticism in the media some of it personal and nasty and much of it is coming from so-called climate skeptics who yes do still exist and are still being

given space in some corners of mainstream media there's also some hate speech and so journey through it in that for example from michael know all of the right wing outlets daily while he said this on fox news this past week that climate hysteria movement is not about science if it were about science it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and a mentally ill swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and fox news was forced to apologize for nonsense comments even admitting that they were disgraceful the networks have no plans to book him in the future but we saw more of this kind of thing from another rupert murdoch owned media outlets sky news australia present and you bolt delivered a monologue claiming to be concerned about the child abuse and is being subjected. all those activists those reckless politicians who treated this chronically anxious

and disturbed 16 year old is the new messiah and ashot into some sense at last. now able to see they've been patty not just to a collective histeria to an extraordinary child abuse and i don't suppose things are any more civilised on social media it's always worse online through the tweets by british political scientist justin murphy he said if you think. the maturity it's a guy global policy making then you cannot object to jeffrey dean paying fix dinner all of the sex at 13 was of course the american billionaire accused of serial sexual abuse of children who took his own life last month to have dealt with a torrent of sex of the beast with the kind of dignity and maturity some of her critics clearly lacked she tweeted i honestly don't understand why adults would

choose to spend their time mocking and threatening teenagers and children for promoting finds when they could do something good instead i guess they must simply feel so threatened by ok thanks to our. muslim invaders feminists out to destroy our way of life and the coming white genocide those are among the obsessions online of the far right they've been weaponized and monetized by some skillful provocateurs on the web's primary video platform you tube through which they have entered the homes and the minds of millions the content typically disguised as cutting edge journalism can have real life ramifications viral material that is capable of not just radicalizing the views of those who watch it but driving some of them to acts of violence among the best known practitioners of the art the rebel media it's a small canadian outlet but has an influence that goes well beyond that country's

borders the rebels' list of contributors includes british and american voices names like hopkins robinson and gorkha known for peddling some toxic tropes at home and happy to be granted an outlet offshore the listening posts flow phillips now on the rebel you tube and one case study of far right radicalization online. inside the d.c. beltway bringing you the stories that the mainstream media just won't cover the mainstream media doesn't have. to actually ask you these questions dropping the ball you stop covering stories that actually matter to joe sixpack at home when i 1st found right wing media and far right media on you tube i was in a very difficult time in my life. i had just dropped out of college and had to move back home and i went to youtube in an effort to try to fix myself.

this is caleb kane 5 years ago he turned to the internet in search of information 40 fell into was a you tube shaped hole to a far right content a new community and you might. i remember i was watching gavin again if you want to make goal of the east is to convert it convert or die gavin would talk about islam he would talk about helping to generate culture or that it's it's dangerous that they're invading the west and that they're going to take over western civilization they're not about assimilation they're about changing and it's working now sort of i would watch warren southern. warn as more of a reporter she would go to rallies ok you know i'm going i'm going i'm not. out of my yard and you know she'd be getting bottles thrown out or bricks thrown out or

and she would just continue to march forward and i had a lot of respect. lauren south and mcinnis just to have a cost a persuasive just sometimes pretty poisonous characters given the platform by the web will be a fringe online canadian outlet. channel currently boasts 1200000 subscribers with some of its more viral videos regularly getting hits in the millions because its content is inflammatory its tagline a fearless source of news opinion and activism you won't find anywhere else. to ever drink and to refugee and to climate liberal and a lot of things and they kind of say that they're about challenging mainstream narratives and like a real news organization they don't look for balance but they simply try to create

narratives that anger. really get people riled up. we put this description of the rebels' content to the founder of the outfit as a real event he wrote back twice both times he dismissed the descriptions saying it was a. matter of opinion not fact and quote i'll be honest i don't care what al jazeera is opinions of me are we made it clear in follow up e-mails that it was not al-jazeera is opinion we were requesting his comment on. levant as a conservative canadian broadcaster and former political operative following the closure of his previous employer sun news network canada's failed attempt at fox news he started the rebel welcome to the show as well where it had no parameters on what could be said and didn't require a high tech studio just a green screen and a camera. michael coren worked with levant in the sun news days he got the call up

to join the rabble back in 2050 i found the way he presented his politics to be the stabbing. most certainly wasn't my approach but then when sonny was closed he called me telephoned me and asked if i would work for it and i had this sort of change of view sometime early about 6 months earlier and i've been writing things and and i remember saying to measure i'm not brand you know i would be right for you and he said no no way we want all sorts of opinion on it and i said ok and i work for them this could be a record for one day. others lasted a little longer in it's short history the rebel has employed the who's who of the far right launching the careers of homegrown canadian personalities like subban and faith goldie and offering a platform for more established far right agitators like us based mcguinness and former trump operative sebastian gorka all the u.k.'s katie hopkins and tommy

robinson. have been mostly bright gangs tommy robinson who is a commentator who was once the founder of the english defense league has reported on you know muslim great and uses that have of terminology why one narrative was altogether deleted and replaced by another right after they came back last classic or here in canada there is content showing the trouble with faith call it talking about there was a conspiracy the government was hiding the fact that it was a muslim shooter who did this really trying to sort of create a whole other alternate universe of information. fake goldy proved to be too radical even for the rebels the coverage of a white supremacist rally in charlottesville america and to follow up interview with a new nazi website the day stormer got her fine setting off a domino effect one co-founder quit and

a host of contributors backed away. so it was kind of him out there for them and looked like they were falling apart because they had lost in a very short order all of their highest profile personalities we came to think that no respectable politician want to have anything to do with. and they will became rightly regarded in canada as close as mad as they can canada has to a major or right organization if we keep track of a lot of hate groups extremist movements extremist figures i'm not sure if rebel media cleanly fits the bill and a lot of that has to do with presentation it's a little bit more coded i think they're providing fodder and a munition in a way for people to develop these extreme beliefs or to feel validated. which is exactly what the rebels content did for cain it came giving him the building blocks to develop radical ideas on a range of issues. in kane's case the impact of the rebels content didn't go beyond

implementing his beliefs for some of us though the effect was much more profound take matthew raymond the suspect in a 2018 mass shooting in the canadian province of new brunswick he specifically cited the rebel as having informed his views and stuff majok about the rebel media and just last month the author of police filed a criminal complaint alleging that the rebel had breached a section of the canadian criminal code by willfully promoting hatred of the muslim community the videos they reference featured faith goldie and tommy weapons in these houses are enemy combatants who want to kill you minute and destroy you they want to destroy our way of life you're teaching people that you know people in their community are trying to destroy them up and their idea of culture. and i think it's almost. you know a logical next step that some people will choose to act on and i think that's what

so dangerous about farm like is that it provides fake answers to really significant concerns that people have and that should be discussed and debated in society but must be done so with truth and honesty and fairness rather than you know misinformation outright lies. there's a reoccurring theme in many of the stories of radicalization you choose and the numerous loopholes that allow extremists to slip past content gatekeepers broadcasting their views to large audiences often on regulate we have been very careful here because we don't want to come down hard on from speech and social media in a straight as an owner that comes from being criticized but you cheap is very liberating and it's one and it has enabled new people to speak their mind to think about that enable and empower people to speak their mind well the mind can be

a good and find one and informed it could face the malicious you tube as far as i'm concerned is. perhaps even more than facebook the most powerful force for radicalization misinformation and propaganda that the world has ever seen. for cain you tube was part of his downfall and his rehabilitation while far right content creators have an uncomfortably large presence on the platform there are also many conspiracy busting hate speech blasting. after finding other content creators online. that exposed a lot of these ideas for what they were i really started to recontextualize a lot of my believe they would explain to me how a lot of the beliefs that i had were just repackaged conspiracy theories from the past and that was very shocking to me is. what i would call my process in the

radicalization. kaleb cain man found a way out but the output he left behind content like the rebel is still. out that to inflame anger and potentially radicalize further generations of the extreme right. and finally to britain breck's it and boris johnson should he stay or should he go johnson can still count on a right wing tabloids like the sun and the daily mail to argue that the courts in the u.k. are mounting a constitutional coup against him when judges dwell on of all things lost in this case as the online political sideshow dot co dot u.k. pointed out with a little help from the clash and the queen the law won we'll see you next time here at the listening post. i think. but. i think that.

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accused by several women of rape you've been detained you've been with this country confinement all the while you have refrained from speaking to the media why have you trust them to talk about islamic studies professor tonic. to al-jazeera about the ongoing great thank you sanctions against. afghans votes in an election overshadowed by security concerns and stalled talks with the taliban. and. al jazeera life and also coming up the u.s. envoy to ukraine resigned as the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump

intensifies. standing united in their call for change demonstrators in hong kong the 5 year anniversary of the umbrella movement. let the games begin the world athletics championships kick off here and we have all the action including this moving show of sportsmanship. have been several explosions in afghanistan as polls open for the country's 4th presidential election one was in the capital kabul one another in the southern city of kandahar inside a polling station where at least 16 people were injured the taliban have threatened to target people casting their ballots tens of thousands of security personnel have been deployed around the country well voters are choosing from 14 candidates but it's likely to come down to 2 men the incumbent president ashraf ghani. the chief

executive. who shared power since 2014 the election has been delayed twice and is taking place after talks between the u.s. and taliban collapse earlier this month the taliban has refused to negotiate directly with the afghan government. let's get the latest. polling station in kabul rob it isn't a great start these reports of these attacks in various different locations how are things going where you are. that's right lever we are well into this polling day it's just after lunchtime here in afghanistan and we are as you mentioned one of the polling stations right in the center of kabul with behind a perimeter of various defenses and roadblocks and then beyond that is roadblocks set up on the outskirts of kabul to try to restrict any attacks in the capital itself and it has to be said that they business here has been pretty lackluster

there's been a steady trickle of people here coming to vote since early in the morning when we 1st opened and not much more than that now you can't take what happens at one polling station as being indicative of what happens throughout the country but it does i think seem to be pretty makes the election commission here is saying that thousands of polls polling stations opened people were waiting in long lines that may well have been the case in some parts of afghanistan but other reports from other cities other rural parts of the country say that there had not been that much voting going on numbers have been quite low so it does tend to be pretty mixed and as you mentioned that the taliban is carrying out its threat to try to disrupt this poll as you mentioned there was a an explosion in the southern city of kandahar 16 people injured inside a polling station that other attacks at the border 2 attacks on the outskirts of kabul also a mortar attack in can do that we're hearing about which again injured some people near a polling station there so all of this does have the

a cumulative effect i think of making people scared to go out and vote of wondering whether it's worth the risk especially when you consider there is a certain amount of apathy here about the general situation and whether their vote is going to make any difference and so the. yes voting is underway but it does seem to be the turnout tend to be quite low in many places that way hearing from with only a couple of hours to go before the polls close in addition to that the taliban is saying that they have blocked some roads between various paths to stop people getting to the polling stations also have been attacking power supplies again to make things worse for people trying to stage this election need so rob apathy security concerns all of it having an impact on whether or not people do go out to vote but for those who are braving the polling stations have been have things been going smoothly for them at least. relatively smoothly but it does depend in which

part of the country you are we are hearing about problems 'd for example with some of the technologies being employed the biometrics these machines that are meant to ensure that there's no double voting take your fingerprint to identify you properly so you can hold it so you your identity is known at each polling station knew your name comes up against you'll picture and your fingerprints in some parts those machines haven't been working we are told so there are some problems we also hearing especially in more conservative parts of the country other problems such as women going out to vote this election was always higher heralded as being very important for the women of afghanistan 'd a surge of which are not among the registered voters to go out and cast their vote now in some of the more conservative tribal areas of the country we're hearing that it's been difficult for some polling stations to have women present in those polling stations which means that a lot of the leaders of families the men in charge of the households have not been

allowing their women to go out and vote because they haven't been women that need rob thank you very much for the bride and couple that. the u.s. special envoy to ukraine has become the 1st casualty in a widening impeachment inquiry quits after being named to the whistleblower complaint it accuses the white house of trying to cover up a call between president donald trump and ukraine's leader particle haying reports a few subpoenas landed at the u.s. state department late friday evening congress demanding documents and testimony from 5 of their officials in the coming days including the u.s. special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor

a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong brush clearing out fire. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and months to come is that congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job to make sure we beat. what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is moving their fast so far the administration is simply tried to ignore congress but now that impeachment has been

invoked if they take this case to the courts president says they'll likely force the president to comply to let aides testify to turn over all the documents meaning it's possible a lot more of what the president said privately to many other world leaders could become public and then the congress will have to decide if his words rise to the level of impeachment political hang here in washington protests are being held in hong kong on saturday to mount the 5th anniversary of the so-called umbrella movement thousands marched in 2014 to demand the right for the territory to choose its own leader rallies are also set to take place in other cities including london and washington d.c. in a show of solidarity the movement inspired the recent protests that have been running for 16 weeks or prominent hong kong activists joshua wall has announced he's running for local office in an attempt to bring the protest movement into the city's political system. thinking these can force. them

to move plaque. in some of the time since the summer this time i'm that's my role to play house is essential to put pressure on the hong kong government and also president speaking to. me at the time and. all the 5 demands you different so some pressure which made for a good action. or let's get all the latest from sarah clarke who's in hong kong we can see protests is amassing behind you given it's the 5th anniversary of the umbrella movement was expected today. while we're at it the rallying point the mind rallying point in hong kong on saturday to mark the 5th anniversary of the umbrella movement was also known as the occupy hong kong revolution and this particular point was where it all kicked off back in 2014 and you might never see the hive of activity behind me this is the lead and this

certainly became a meeting point for those parts of ocracy groups who rallied here for months and paralyzed parts of central hong kong and their push for greater universal suffrage a brighter freedom of expression and democracy today is off to the 5th anniversary and this particular activity is happening at a number of districts across hong kong there resurrecting these levels in the last hour or so this is being completely rebuilt with all these projects ocracy posts is being put and stuff on these walls but this is a weekend of protests on many fronts on sunday i would tonight i should say there's also another big rally to sit with human rights front organize an assembly in front of this building and this building is hong kong's parliament we expect thousands to gather again to mark the 5th anniversary of the umbrella revolution but on sunday we're also expecting a number of other rallies this is for the greater wider movement pro-democracy movement and that includes a march which has not been approved by police but it will come from victoria part of course white but once again the focus point is here and as you mentioned there are global protests standing on the front stand with hong kong around the world

over this weekend. for the problem of student activists joshua warren has announced that he's running for local office what's the significance of this. well he course was the face of the umbrella movement back in 24 saying i hear peter paid on time he's been arrested numerous times for his role in those pro-democracy demonstrations he's a 22 year old young up political activist and he's been demonstrating in these rallies but he's also this particular enough but it's significant on the grounds it will be a 2nd see a surge of interest from these products to groups he's going to stand in the cities district election in the city self but it is the 1st time he's running for politics he did co-found the great the political party didn't see started another one of his colleagues night in law he was elected in the elections under the dentist a party but he has since been disqualified but let's not pretend a surge in numbers really string for these district upcoming district election and this certainly is an indication of the interest and the political awakening that

was saying currently in hong kong sarah clarke in hong kong thank you very much still ahead on al jazeera chaos in haiti we'll tell you what's causing it and what the people on the streets are demanding. change abused and tortured nigerian police free at least $300.00 imprisoned police. and are there the rains have been pushing further south over the last few days so much of born is saying cloud and again fairly extensive areas already meanwhile food to the west not too bad a day on sunday at the mill a pencil a mostly in showers farther to the south but you'll see where the rain is fairly heavy widespread is across much of sumatra then as we head off into monday.