i'm a very unfit again in doha the top stories on al-jazeera the international court of justice as older man mas' government to take emergency measures to prevent soldiers from committing acts of genocide against rogue hinges who are still living that around 3 quarters of a 1000000 fled to neighboring bangladesh during the military offensive against them 3 years ago me on loss leader aung san suu kyi denies genocide has been committed but accuses refugees of exaggerating abuses the foka is covering the story from the hague he says the ruling will be difficult to enforce but it's still a significant development from the whole course. what the court has been asked to do is rule on 2 things to say whether or not it has jurisdiction and it has come back saying it does indeed have jurisdiction meaning

a genocide trial would take place and secondly it was by the gambia to to impose something called provisional measures which amounts to an emergency injunction to put the brakes on any form of genocidal violence so what we've heard from the court a short while ago is that there were terms of what it wants me to do wants to make sure that its military and all irregular forces that work alongside it stop all acts of violence including rape the burning of villages mass murder the prevention of access to medicine it's also asked beyond preserve all evidence when it comes to the ongoing trial the future trial of genocide and also further terms when it comes to the timing is what he wants me i ma to report back 4 months from today and then every 6 months going forward to show exactly what it's doing to the international community to prove that it is actually living up to what the

i.c.j. the un's highest court has now imposed upon it. the 2nd city in china has announced a shutdown of public transport to try it to stop the spread of the deadly new virus ongoing now on is where the corona virus outbreak was 1st reported last month the world health organization is meeting again to decide whether to declare an international public health emergency. fighting has intensified in syria's last rebel held province over the past few days 8 civilians have been killed after government there strikes hit a town in southern and 2 camps for displaced people in the east there are also reports of heavy fighting between rebels and government forces so tim costello is following developments from istanbul. there was a ceasefire that was a stablished agreed actually by russia and turkey on january 12th so current did there shouldn't be any gunfire by by either of the size however we are seeing that

in the last one week the clashes have intensified and according to some reports by the same estate turkish news agency within the last 48 hours just because of the bomb weidman spy the syrian government and russia at least 39000 people have been again displays across and most of them moving towards the turkish syrian border or moving to euphrates shield or operation all of branch areas that are currently under the syrian opposition control right now the cease fire seems that seems not to be holding gadarene but none of the government or is neither turkey nor russia say anything about that they believe they say they want to pursue this cease fire however a couple of days ago coming back from berlin turkey's president are gone told turkish journalists that this is not acceptable and he said that he's telling what's going on and that the president vladimir putin but he doesn't believe so i

spoke to some turkish military sources they told me the same is the syrian regime when they ask about the cease fire despite the cease fire why are you attacking the syrian opposition the syrian government says they are attacking us we are retaliating however on the other side the opposition says exactly the same. awards obama cross has crashed while fighting bush in australia all 3 of its crew died contact was lost near the capitol cumber of the aircraft have been contracted from an american company. more news for you were during a sort of to witness on al-jazeera which is next. who on the order.

to modernise and cut your other book of the month on. me that what it. is accept. reflects. a conscious alternative while i'm on. we're breaking into witness which is i'm sorry has just begun to what's listening

to this algeria's foreign minister talking about the situation in libya. assistant . diplomats he's working with all our friends here and brothers who are here and we shall continue definitely that we have to. sometimes raise up our voice so people will at least listen to us i do know. that what happened is usual in berlin and welcoming he the foreign minister. these yes. all the neighboring countries it excluding egypt has to born and algeria and other madrid to build in berlin was white. on the closed meeting that part is. concerned

must be represented and. i mean it just anything done by a jury is not alone it's not for the algerian entrust we work hard to bring peace stability and security to libya we could not work alone work together with our colleagues here and that the united nations and the berlin come from some everyone is working for that. we are on the same track that the liberal term for is the african the in another part is must be represented. was it going to get him out of the for the stability there was a refusal to any foreign intervention and the outcome of this meeting. before a few days. then the turkish foreign minister visit to. and then can you send

a direct message to the different parties in libya that just think you and i'm talking in the name of algeria our policy is quite the clear in this regard we need not any foreign intervention and i think the foreign interventions that have complicated the crises in libya this is clear for everyone to know and. hold and. go in to lay in the posse but what i would like to say is in principle that algeria rejects any foreign intervention and we reject the presence of any. foreign troops in libya we accept the rules of forces not said. by the libyans

and. when i have come trade has a sovereign right to agree with the party but we. are concerned about the whole situation that in addition to a principle the principle of ses as a foreign intervention in libya will completely kate the matter more and thank you very much for you all probably the ministers. they want to say something. thank you very much that i thank you. but algeria's foreign minister speaking at a meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries that neighbor libya algeria has foreign minister rudd. talking about what he

sees as the the situation let's bring in out syria's mahmoud of the white head who's on the line now from tripoli and we only caught the the end of the foreign minister's comments what did you make of it. well andrea an it seems that to the minister has gathered in a journey of trying to confirm to me through the points and if it is. like tyco much german put a minister of state you could then according to. news 8 an agency in a junior that the countries that attended and believe me to agree to reject it into vention in libya by any of those countries attended bullying complaints and the 2nd point is to prevention remove flooding into to be especially by

smuggling and to turn to the political process it seems that. is keen to god that only used to put a minister of the neighboring countries of libya to stress on prevention of also smuggling of weapons across these countries into libya as you know as we and. the countries in the neighboring countries of libya including egypt tunisia 'd. and also other countries that the office neighbors of libya bodies still there they they were present. threat to because like many for example it's invited and jenny had despite the fact that it's 1 labor and country. and libya but the fact that some weapons come from libya to mali and that way round also recently the rise of extremism in the business and he has between natalee

and libya so it seems that. germany is keen to stress on the points where raised and vetted in meeting and now also we're getting views from a journey at the conclusion. and this meeting might be also if they get to the. meeting to gather those countries that involve a concern that it by libyan issues but is this meeting anything other than a talking shop could do the neighboring countries have any power to influence what is happening on the ground in libya. as you know adrian for example 2 of the main mableton countries of libya invited to join today like egypt and tunisia as you know egypt has been only was

a measure of support of 1 1 side of the conflict especially the world a little tiny perhaps in egypt has been supporting seceded the region of the egyptian president but he has been a major supporter of had been providing him with advanced weapons and sending troops to help them in all these gotten over libya including this started to take control of the capital city and on the although her in tunisia as you know as a supportive big government of national school the u.n. it is not is a government of national court as you know libya has blown the spacious very wide those would do is country and it's marked wanted to because taking advantage of the loneliness and case of the country and these internal conflicts these have been always. by usually by smugglers smugglers

and also even human trafficking in many cases so it seems that it. is now keen to invite only news concerning the countries and this like you mentioned this is going to be part of. a general time to discuss the libyan issues the next week saying that i and my folks i want to ask you about something else that this go away from that meeting the main airport in libya's capital is closed right now off the wall coming from house to house the no fly zone of a trip for me to take the airport and i was for flights from grounded until further notice shortly after they restarted following a rocket attack on wednesday the un recognized government says that hostile forces are incapable of enforcing a flight bound. we announce the activation of a no fly zone that we previously described as you can see on this map the no fly

zone includes maty good airport the areas are now forbidding for civilian or military aviation any civilian or military aircraft whoever it belongs to will be in breach of the cease fire and therefore will be directly destroyed. what impact is this closure of the airport having on the capital. do a diverse teaching and packed only partially on civilians and the capital not only in tripoli but in the whole rest of the country but because now it is in a mighty good enforced adriane the main line the only operational airport in the capital city. 5 that. the asian has been halted and all flights have been diverted to the most about 2 and a half drive east of the capital tripoli the suffering of civilians passengers excessive bathing and now as you know this airport as

a civilian airport that has been the only operation an airport in the capital tripoli many people have been 8 on this airport for receiving medical treatment brode traveling to. receive medical treatment abroad including the patients from tripoli and from several. cities in the west of the country so because of this is a major threat not only only to the people of tripoli but also to the people from many cities in the west of the country but remember adrian this is not the 1st time this airport is being attacked by half of those forces and resulting in a closure of the airport there 5 those forces launching this military offensive to take control of the castle sensuously back in april this was the talk with this airport dozens of time either by airstrikes or by rockets and in many cases

that have been civilian casualties many random rockets landed in the vicinity of this airport. killing and one thing innocent civilians and recently there have been many cases of. post-traumatic just. among civilians who spoke to neighbors. tenants of. the houses in the vicinity of them i think. that is living in a state of panic many people live around the mighty good air force these attacks and the did wondering we don't know when these attacks. will stop big say that as long as half of the forces in southern chile so the attack might not stop did also wondering why the international community the united nations it is not intervening to protect civilians because they say that this is the only

operation at airports and in this is the worst of the country that operational consequently and especially in the capital tripoli so the calling on the united nations the full solution to at least put a no fly zone over to prevent going to school says will happen as warplanes from targeting get this area. but one day thanks indeed out as in as much would otherwise had been live on the line from tripoli al jazeera tony berkeley is also in tripoli he's on the line with us now to tell us about where you are and what you've seen today. one just on the outskirts of tripoli i have to say that it's very difficult to see anything something of a blanket ban on going anywhere near when it any of this action has been happening and we only rely on people telling us what they have seen is saying that the airport has been under attack now since i've 1 been here for about 7 days and it's

been indiscriminate shelling rockets coming over are not covered that sort of area where schools have been hit and people have been suffering casualties. it's difficult to get a full handle on what is happening now the latest situation that happened we had still photographs of what they said was a drone that came from western side and that originally came from the united arab emirates but also the other side claim that this was a turkish term and they shot it down so there's a war a propaganda war going on also and finding out exactly what's going on is very difficult but it has been a fact that the sample has been a target but the. the accuracy of the rockets is something to be desired because a lot of people have been suffering from that area it's hard to get a handle we are banned from going to the frontline there's no movement on that but there has been violation generally it's accepted the ceasefire is generally holding

not just in tripoli but also for the south. and misrata but there are these violations we can hear shelling and you know several shells going off of an evening so it's chilly holding but it's not an ideal situation and what about people who are living there i mean what impact is this having on daily life. it's a big impact especially in the people living on the airport now they are staying in their homes for now because they've got nowhere else to go and there's about 200000 people who are displaced in libya because of this conflict and they're living in makeshift accommodation so when people can they stay where they are but of course you know the school we went to for example out of 450 people they said that 60 percent of them were suffering some form of trauma and they're having psychologists in school now to deal with these problems but you know schools have been closed because schools have been hit the school we were at 3 times by rockets and you

can't keep kids indoors all the time they need an education so the lives of people in a very basic level are being affected and of course now with the oil blockade is going on this is hitting the country financially the time when it needs money that 1 it's not getting foreign currency going to come in is going to be a squeeze on people and their suffering that way as well now people are saying well the conference is going on we've had the girl in conference we've not got the algeria conference going on going to be another conference with a lot of talking people are saying but what about the action how are you going to stop the war and the big question is how are they going to do that because they may say that is not going to have any representation in any kind of form of libyan government but he is a very in a very strong position he's controlling 2 thirds of the country he has a large part of what was the liberation the libyan army armaments the number of planes he is a very capable fighter and he's at the gates of tripoli so what will it take to

make him stop fighting and they agreed to a peace a lasting peace that's the question al jazeera study berkeley reporting live from the outskirts of tripoli in libya tony many thanks indeed. now let's. move to other news now the international court of justice has ordered me and was government to take emergency measures to prevent soldiers committing. acts of genocide against who are still living there around 3 quarters of a 1000000 fled to neighboring bangladesh during the military offensive against them 3 years ago. on suchi denies that genocide has been committed it accuses refugees of exaggerating abuses in serious need backup is at the hague and says the ruling will be difficult to enforce but it's still a significant development from the top court. what the court has been asked to do is rule on 2 things to say whether or not it has jurisdiction and it has come back saying it does indeed have jurisdiction meaning

a genocide trial will take place and secondly it was asked by the gambia to to impose something called provisional measures which amounts to an emergency injunction to put the brakes on any form of genocidal violence and what we've heard from the courts a short while ago is that there were terms of what it wants me to do wants to make sure that its military and all irregular forces that work alongside it stop all acts of violence including rape the burning of villages mass murder the prevention of access to medicine it's also asked me. preserve all evidence when it comes to the ongoing trial the future trial of genocide and also further terms when it comes to the timing is what he wants me i ma to report back 4 months from today and then every 6 months going forward to show exactly what it's doing to the international community to prove that it is actually living up to what the

i.c.j. the un's highest court has now imposed upon it. a 2nd city in china has announced a shutdown of public transport to try to stop the spread of a deadly new virus. is near where the corona virus outbreak was 1st reported last month the world health organization is placing again to decide whether to declare an international public health emergency. china will continue to maintain an open transparent egg donor responsible manner for the global health and safety and reports of any outbreaks we will maintain close communication with the world health organization relevant countries and regions including hong kong and taiwan we also believe that the emergency committee at the world health organization will base their findings about the outbreak on truth science and past year reasonable analysis and sound judgment. fighting has intensified in syria's last rebel held province over the past few days 8 civilians have been killed after

government airstrikes hit a town in southern italy and 2 camps in the displaced people in the east are also reports of heavy fighting between rebels and government forces. reports now from istanbul. there was a ceasefire that was a stablish agreed actually by russia and turkey on january 12th so current did there shouldn't be any gunfire by by either of the size however we are seeing that in the last one week the clashes have intensified and according to some reports by the same estate turkish news agency within the last 48 hours just because of the bomb weidman spy the syrian government and russia at least 39000 people have been again displays across and most of them moving towards the turkish syrian border or moving to euphrates schildt or operation all of branch areas that are currently

under the syrian opposition control right now the cease fire seems that seems not to be holding gadarene but none of the government or is neither turkey nor russia say anything about that they believe they say they want to proceed to cease fire however a couple of days ago coming back from berlin turkey's president our john told turkish journalists that this is not acceptable and he said that he's telling what's going on and the president vladimir putin but he doesn't believe so i spoke to some turkish military sources they told me the same is the syrian regime when they ask about the cease fire despite the cease fire why are you attacking the syrian opposition the syrian government says they are attacking us we are retaliating however on the other side the opposition says exactly the same. let's return momentarily to libya top diplomats from the countries neighboring countries and beyond and beyond

a meeting in algeria as capital and intensifying international efforts to end the conflict that tearing apart the oil rich north african country al-jazeera would up the warhead was with us by phone a little earlier we've managed to get him now so that we can see him he's with us again live from tripoli actually a cone here me now so actually we're not going to go back to the what of the why had a little later. venezuela's opposition leader is calling on the european union to broaden sanctions against the government of president nicolas maduro. is on a tour of europe in defiance of a travel ban e.u. countries have recognized him as interim president to have imposed sanctions on some venezuelans in the jurors in a circle but they've also been pushing for mediation which by those says has failed . you want to model as you government says that it will keep the so-called safe 3rd country agreement for asylum seekers sent from the united states the u.s.

has deported around 230 central american asylum seekers to guatemala in the past 2 months migrants rights groups condemned the u.s. policy saying that was somalia is unsafe because of widespread crime and drugs trafficking. africa's richest woman is a suspect in a major fraud case in angola isabel dos santos is being investigated for mismanagement of allegedly siphoning off funds in this chair of the state oil company of the daughter of angola's former president denies transferring millions of dollars of government money into her offshore accounts. say we can go back to mahmoud of the white head in tripoli earlier we were listening to all jiri is foreign minister what did he say. well ed really it seems that is keen to have all the foreign

ministers of libya's neighboring countries to agree on 2 major issues of the 1st one is to reject all kinds of intervention in the libyan issue as you know that egypt as a neighboring country is a major supporter of one side of the conflict there was a lot for have to do and also the tunisia on the other side is a supporter of the government of national government of national accord despite the fact that there is a huge difference between the 2 countries egypt supports have to do with weapons and also with the military experts for the past few years along with the united arab emirates but tunisia only it could neither their. government and it has shoes in and the usual way to deal with the rival factions in libya but it is still supports the western the camp led by the government the 2nd issue is the prevention

of all kinds of weapons smuggling into libya including get the head in ways as the ministers call it in algeria as you know that libya's neighboring countries they have very long to spacious unmonitored borders with libya and over the past years 20 levon these borders have been the way for all kinds of smuggling including weapons smuggling and also human trafficking weapons are coming into and going out of libya through these borders into and out of these countries so it seems that by inviting. german foreign minister. wants to send a message that this meeting is a kind of extension an assertion to the meeting and berlin and also wants to

have a kind of promise from the neighboring countries of libya that they are going on the same track so that it can really feel that their conclusions of this meeting to the meeting that's due to be held in geneva as a continuation of the peace talks held in better so the meeting is going is held as it used to be held by the end of this month so algeria as a key player in the libyan issue is trying also to play there at all of the mediated along with germany and other european parties and also a kind of continuation to the deescalation mediation as you know that there is a ceasefire supposedly in place despite the fact that it has been violated several times over the past few days including today that have been fighting today well been hearing it sounds of heavy fighting in southern shipley despite the fact that

both rival or warring factions on the ground do not seem to put this cease fire in place but yet on the last i mean at least it's better than the past few weeks where the fighting has been taken heavy a toll on civilians in southern tripoli. 100 boarding live from tripoli top diplomats from libya's neighboring countries and beyond the meeting right now in the algerian capital of the intensifying international efforts to end the conflict that's tearing apart the oil rich north african nation will have more on that in the rest of those news in the news hour right after listening post next. now shut down crying all right because that's the one thing that i will. protect trust. me i've now come back here and i get back to. the revolutionary guard. hello i'm richard burton you're

at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week iran the showdown with the u.s. and how the accidental downing of a passenger aircraft has changed the narrative there portugal and racism the country's news media and the discourse of denial. the global warming use the area in australia the murdoch empire is taking some heat for its coverage of the wildfires there and the practical joke on a foreign correspondent felt for for a worthy cause we've been told that this is quite a dangerous there has been known to. people hold a drop here consider what it must be like to be in charge of communications for the iranian government right now or what it's like to be iranian trying to sort fact from political fiction 2 weeks ago an american drone strike killed the country's most important military figure general custom soleimani that provided tehran with

an opening a chance to rewrite the political narrative to steer iranians away from protesting over and oppressive government and the state of their economy to rally them to back their islamic leaders against the americans and for a few days that seemed to be working then that passenger plane was shot down over tehran and iran's leaders had a decision to make for 3 days they chose to lie to the public before finally coming clean admitting that they took that plane down by mistake iranians have since taken to the streets not to mourn the loss of a fallen soldier but because they are outraged over years of official lies ineptitude and impunity that messaging on. is long gone the iranian government now has a p.r. nightmare on its hands our starting point this week is tehran. the truth has many of these in iran want to run to hide the truth has

a lot of foot soldiers not know what they. want to know when the state misleads the public the state media reflects the same thing about us and i get more happy that it was a big thank you. for your legal. access it's another nail in the coffin of public trust and the state t.v. every once in a while a story comes along that exposes the facade and then destroys it 1st the iranian government denied its forces had shot down the airliner the domestic media swallowed that narrative failed to question it and pointed the finger elsewhere mannheim into a get out number of combat as i demand to hear me out. now by bush pilots and other experts who were on message were paraded in front of the camera i got a. little help what was the mission and when they finally admitted they had accidentally

taken 176 lives the government was apologetic but seemingly unashamed of the deceptions it had peddled our military forces the brave enough to claim responsibility to step back out of her tell me about the host of a daytime program at the state owned i r i b. was ashamed of her part in the misinformation process after more than a decade in the job she was. then things go on the highest security level in iran they tell journalists what you can say and what you can't say but i or i b this they broadcast there is a different level because if you want to ask you to get. to the level of being a news reader of this pay t.v. your vision is passed enough idealogy tests that you don't need come wincing i have a long history of i.b.m. both my parents grew up working for the i.r.b. i have a lot of affection for this institution but it's been really rotten beyond recognition

i think all of this is capsulated very well by a statement very strong statement by the tear on based journalism association he said that today we're mourning the loss the funeral of public trust where the fun was at a hotel people like the ha ha to me at the athletes who are leaving iran's national teams with the artists who boycotted festivals all of them with signalling a social withdrawal that we've never seen before the hot hot humid out of the daughter of a war veteran now there are people attacking and thought into it and she's asking how the good person before i resigned and suddenly i'm a bad person this in my view is what the regime supporters have no answer for me tonight in this process with. iran's media landscape is restricted television is the government's domain it either owns the channels or controls them through other means critical journalism sprinkled with dissent is limited to print and online

facebook and twitter work organizing and dissemination platforms during the protests in 2009 facebook has since been backed these days instagram is where it's at but one of the by products of so much media control is that when the time comes to face the cameras and deliver a message people like the supreme leader or hossein sodomy the head of the revolutionary guards are very good at. do stuff. i mean i walk emotion. that morning i also want to point out that this was a. marginal. there is no culture of accountability this is saddam is the head of one of the most powerful institutions in iraq how many interviews has he given before the guards run about 3040 percent iranian economy they run massive media and yet they have never been responsible to

the people or to the constitution by the way or to anything in the cover up was probably more unacceptable to iranian people than the unintentional down of the plane and i think the media also struggled very hard how to frame this we were between a rock and a hard place if they wanted to really investigate the issue they were worried that they might endanger national security and if they were just parroting what the government was saying they risk losing credibility the wrong hands are well versed at scouring the web and social media for independent journalism the kind that can land reporters in prison 12 have been arrested over the past 2 months for coverage of anti-government economic protests and instagram which for some reason the government has not blocked has become the platform of choice. i actually don't know why it's not like i can answer that but i can tell you about why instagram is so popular it allows the iranian to sort of show their normal lives in the way that

other social media platforms don't do and since you know so much of day to day life is of a sensor that he didn't iran now it's used for everything people don't even bother posting it anywhere else not after this. political people are starting to use this platform which is mostly designed for photos and videos for writing and sharing political statements as well as a lot of political videos. the polarized and fragmented social space in iran is also reflected on instagram from religious videos to knead photography the whole spectrum is represented the thick mentored reality of society is mirrored visually and verbal that was here. on this story twitter is the place to go for conspiracy theories which thrive in countries where information is lacking or where misinformation rules some have posted that the plane was actually blown up from the

inside by a passenger as part of a swedish zionist plot the passenger they named turned out to be 9 years old others have posted links to pro-government newspapers saying that the american government and boeing had conspired to bring the 737 down the other thing this story has produced has been occasional signs of life in the iranian mainstream media news outlets that usually do what they're told being far more critical of their political masters than they would normally dare to. there was a craze i backlash if you can call it that the editor in chief of state owned media tasnim actually took to twitter to say that iranian authorities should have been transparent with the information they provided the. hafnium another news agencies found themselves in a very difficult situation for 3 days they wrote that the claim the ukrainian flight was shot down by iranian missiles with the enemy that psychological warfare

when the truth was revealed they were shocked but they decided to project the shock on to the government so they felt they'd been tricked into this or they're one of the players that felt left out of the game 1000000 go boys you don't know the history of them. for a government addicted to controlling the media now paying the price for its clumsy propaganda these are just. at times even then that all year he hit big bubble camel live is let. that cannot in that it will be. this past friday the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini chose to deliver a sermon in public for the 1st time in 8 years. but consider what iran is up against on the propaganda from 12 days after the pentagon killed general qassam soleimani the u.s.

state department released this video and unsubtle message to iranians. on the story of regimes gone by the days of the shah a regime that so many iranians feared and hated an era reimagine according to american interests. in tehran desperate times call for desperate message but this time on the story of flight 752 and how to tell it the iranian authorities got it wrong. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joanna hosts joe what's this about trouble in the murdoch household at a time when news outlets in australia which are part of the murdoch empire are being criticized for their coverage of the wildfires there. well on tuesday richard rupert murdoch's son james issued a joint statement with this wife including some pot shots at his family's media

outlets for questioning the cause and downplaying the impact of climate change here is one example of that from sky news australia what do you do to tell the facts that show that we're not actually seeing this climate catastrophe the media keeps talking about now critics have long accused murdoch's global company news corp and some of the families television networks including fox news and sky astray of dismissing widely accepted climate science in clearly some within the murdoch clan feel that way as well a spokesperson for the couple said and i'm paraphrasing now their views on climate and their frustration with some of the news corp and fox coverage on this topic is well known and that they are particularly disappointed with the ongoing denial among the news outlets in australia and this is coming from the murdoch who was rupert's heir apparent right as recently as 18 months ago james was at least nominally responsible for fox news output as the head of its parent company 21st century fox and he still serves on the board of news corp but he lost the 21st

century fox in 2018 when the company was sold to disney and he didn't take up a new position so perhaps there's a little more to this story and the climate issue james did walk away with a lot of money money he is now investing in businesses that champion green causes and democratic reform companies with a far more liberal standpoint than the murdoch empire he seems to have left behind or that left him behind let's move on to kashmir now we're now more than 5 months into an internet blackout in that indian administered region the indian supreme court has declared that blackout illegal and some services are now being restored yes but there is a catch broadband internet will be gradually reintroduced but only at institutions such as hospitals banks government offices and travel company. and the regents administrators have said that there will be care parameters and they have told service providers to install fire walls to limit access to websites they call white

listed access to all social media sites remain blocked in kashmir mobile internet is not available home broadband doesn't work the internet blackout is now the lowest ever in a democratic country it was imposed back and eldest when india's b j p government revoked the semi autonomous stat is a genuine kushner and the cost has been enormous on people's lives their ability to contact loved ones jobs and the economy ok thanks joe. a few months ago 3 women of african descent beatrice gomez de roma wilder thought amanda's and show a scene qatada more had i made history becoming the 1st black women elected to parliament in portugal they come from different parties but they shared a commitment to combat ing racism in portuguese society it was as though that society then wanted to prove their point the women have faced all kinds of racist abuse on social media in the mainstream media the hostility was more subtle but no less direct portuguese commentators and news columnists have contested the idea

that racism even exists there they argue that somehow the portuguese unlike other europeans are immune to racism that they are uniquely colorblind this is a story that while sex in the modern day is rooted in a rose tinted view of the country's history its colonial past the listening posts daniel today now on a state of denial the reporting of race in the portuguese media. this is you know it's moving it or. you don't know but she and 2 other women became pretty blue 1st female roommate because of african descent. and. what it has come to this he had a magnetic effect on the portuguese media. not just for the color

of her skin but also the fact that she speaks with a stop to. pick. up. on. and off. for human occupation had several scenes we talked about the environment health education economics science and so on but the media never looked at me as a candidate with a program for portugal they looked at me as a black woman who speaks with a stutter. quarter for your show card and yet every time i talked about racism the media use that against me to. discuss. social. science which was no more as critique of racism on portugal streets i'm doing it since situations drew

a common reaction from opinion makers right across the media spectrum one of the nile's believe it or the snarl saw the director of song news paper responded to the parties who are making that critique by saying that portugal isn't a racist country and that therefore policies to combat racism don't make sense. of what's in the all mind right green paper observer door there are numerous columnists who denied the existence of racism. and. i ask how do they as a white man manage to affirm with so much conviction that non white people don't suffer racist right now software houses who. seem racism has always been of the. as for the people who suffer from his an example in portugal there is a lot of distrust among ethnic minorities about the police currently there are 18

policemen on trial for racially abusing and torturing 6 young black men who were in that custody and to that there are reports that there are many far right individuals inside the police force and only increases the mistrust among communities of color because you know he's sad that. so many in portugal's black community the media's reporting of police violence is an ongoing source of frustration. in january of last year this video went viral. on. police officers beating a 63 year old black man and his family in a biter those are mica district of lisbon. that drew hundreds of protesters onto the streets and when a few threw stones at the police the response came in robert byrd's.

70 public figures of african descent and then wrote a letter published in the newspapers jordan all told now that condemning the media's coverage. was one of them not a moment. when there are protests in the markets parts of lisbon the coverage tends to be more objective conveying the motivation the demands of the protest. so. in the case of the january 29th team protests. began by criminal i think the protests this week we see this you already have a. polish. b.s.p. 20 percent stop. talk to the same narrative of the police who are looking for excuses to disguise their violence and brutality.

in the testimonies given by the young protesters many of them said they were shot with rubber bullets while they were protesting completely peacefully so that tells us that journalists don't manage to look beyond stereotypes and so when they come to write the news they're sometimes black you know objectivity. but it's in there only when asked. the tendency is to follow those stereotypes stereotypes which they also help to spread. i think what. the most of the media debates around the bite of those are michel story contained a familiar theme denial in this case about racism in the police. to my way or. the other. but i was

a columnist for espresso magazine put it bluntly in portugal he wrote institutional racism does not and cannot exist. the idea that portugal is a kind of noble exception to the. realities of european racism is one that you'll find pretty much across the media here but the online newspaper of that of a dog has been especially prolific in spreading that view i'm on my way to speak to the editor in chief of the paper joe's a man well for now on this to try and understand why no. observer though has published quite a few articles dismissing concerns about racism in portugal one of your columnist called it a myth what do you say to critics from the black community in particular who say that they actually experience that racism all the time. i think we're all racist racism is something that's part of human nature it's part of our defense mechanism this means there is racism everywhere that's about to look never ends

however when it comes to institutional racism in the sense that there are mechanisms that in one way or another hurt someone because of their race i don't think that exists in portugal if anything i would argue that only the opposite exists. on the streets of lisbon importer you can see a population that is racially diverse but take a walk through a portuguese museum and the opposite is true that might help explain how race gets covered and how racism gets tonight however portugal is not the only country with a diversity problem in its newsrooms for many this discourse of denial is rooted in something else portugal's colonial history portugal was the world's 1st global empire and a sense of pride in that imperial past runs deep into the present here in the capital lisbon tributes on of the colonial era and its architect from the monument

to the discoveries which celebrates portugal's conquests across africa asia and south america in the 15th and 16th centuries to the portuguese parliament where this mural marks the 1st encounter between the colonizers call. news outlets are not above dealing in colonial nostalgia either but with colonialism and its legacy under examination like never before the media have become the battleground for a tussle over political. and race relations in the here and now. in the news media that occurs if we have a no media what i'd call a dispute over historical memory there's a certain rightwing elite who are trying to glorify the colonial past for instance they often say that the portuguese one is racist to the other colonizers because they mix with the local population they're well aware that people of color are

getting more of a voice in the media and this is part of their strategy to undermine the rise of anti racists politics with us and. it's obvious how the media try to romanticize colonialism the so-called discovery for having this discourse about the past is then transferred to the present with people looking through the same rose tinted spectacles multiple directions past and present as a result of the media are incapable of noticing it already exists in portuguese society. finally australians have this prank that they like to play on tourists they convince them that not all koalas are cute and cuddly that the koala like drop bear is in fact quite vicious it's not true but with the wildfires destroying so much of their wildlife habitat the people at the kangaroo island wildlife park came up with an

idea enlisting the help of a camera man shawn mulcair they pulled the prank on a foreign correspondent who works for a british network i.t.v. they convinced her that if she wanted to handle that particular kind of koala she'd need to put on some riot gear 1st actual body armor they got the whole thing on camera and then they threw it on a lie a practical joke on the news media which is part of a serious fundraising effort on behalf of australian animals in desperate need we'll see you next time here at the listening post. we've been told that this is quite a dangerous beer has been known to attack people told to drop beer because they dropped the tea to attack people just being handed a and had to put on all of this protection gear because of what it might do to me. i'm not quite sure what is demonize. looking at well ok right where you're going to get here right ok all you have your was mostly a large insurance money right out of the joint you know. and really no r.v.

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coast of brazil like the show is too strong very strong winds popping up there down towards the southeast not to be the case as we go on through the next couple of days woman often want to sara's temperatures here getting up to around $32.00 celsius warmer still as we go on into friday and this night is that offshore wind continuing to drag those showers towards the east coast of brazil larry i would around $25.00 celsius drier in paraguay over the next day or 2 as is the case 2 to bolivia was the site of the amazon seeing more heavy showers heavy showers today for the western side of the caribbean longer spells of writing see this area a cloud in place here will stay rather wet into that east coast of costa rica pounce upon amassing some lively showers so also the situation today with this western weather now pulling away from hispaniola pushing across into where puerto rico and maybe into the leeward just recall one through the next day or so for the lesser antilles it should be a glossy dry having said that and largely dry now cos much of the great tragedies.

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