change and that's been a really, really paul for tailwind for electric mobility. and the government is planning to set up more charging stations to encourage people to make the switch. but there are more erections on india, roads than electric cars. and experts say that's where the government's focus must now be to ensure the environmental gave made by one sector. won't be on the mind by another. elizabeth per item al jazeera new daddy ah, hello, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. west african leaders are scrambling to respond to the political crisis, and molly, after the colonel behind a military crew, then this week was named the new interim president. i think the boy says, says he'll attend to emergency talk with west african leaders on sunday. nicholas hock has moved from bunker. he will absolutely attend this, this meeting,

it gives legitimacy and credence to this latest move made by follow the constitutional court that confirmed that he has been you, president of molly. but before attending this meeting, surely he'll also announce, and you prime minister, he's asked the, the opposition, the end 5 movement, the civil society movement there was behind the protest movement that led to the downfall of president berg. are you bringing back our k time august to, to, to, to find a prime minister and now tens of thousands of people who rallied across brazil to condemn the president's handling of the corona virus pandemic demonstrates his cold to the impeachment of both scenario, who has been criticized for repeatedly downplaying the risk of curve at 19 brazil has reported more than 16000000 cove in 1900 cases. and 450000 death of schools and universities and 16 provinces, enough canister, have closed for 2 weeks to cut the spread of the virus there. the health ministry reported nearly a 1000 new cases and 18 deaths on friday. that's the country's biggest surgeon

a single day. and a new corona virus very and has reportedly been detected in vietnam. the health minister says it's a hybrid of mutations 1st identified in india and the u. k. and spreads quickly, yet nom had successfully contained infection for most of last year, but is now struggling with outbreaks and more than half the country. new tremors and eastern democratic republic of congo are fueling fears of a 2nd volcanic eruption. tens of thousands of people have left the city of goma. dozens were killed when africa's most active volcano narrow congo erupted last week . chelsea has been in manchester, said he, one nell and porter to win the champions league to the 2nd time. they lost one of them 2012 kind of habit scoring his fast ever champions. the goal to give chelsea that when well those are the headlines next up, it's the listening post to stay with us. talk to al jazeera, we can,

the army were attacking ring, and now they're attacking everyone in me. and do you regret words like that? we listen. absolutely. nigeria with a woman present, it would be great. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera. this is part when she went very hard to make it really well. you better than anything really young journal press 5, we believe is right. that makes us complicit it as ongoing crime against humanity. alarm richard gilbert in europe. the listening post where we dig into the news and examine the coverage. here are the media stories we're looking at this week. inflection point is there a breakthrough in the us in the coverage of palestine and israel hijack vela russian. aerospace is now a no go zone for many airlines. after authorities there plucked

a dissident out of the sky. another european leader shows his authoritarian san slovenia. the prime minister says he's at war with the media and making excuses for race. and sometimes things don't go to a generator that's built for the job. the ceasefire in gaza has been in place for more than a week now. and the after effects of the bombings there are reverberating a long way from the holy. nowhere is that more evident than in the united states where every year, billions of dollars in military aid flows from washington to telephone for decades . that close bilateral relationship has skewed the news coverage in the us of the palestine. israel conflict in favor of america's ally, that is clearly starting to shift the question as to what extent and will at last, this is a story about an legal occupation, an apartheid system of government. and forces of change that are now tapping into

american social justice movements like black lives matter in order to get their messages out. the us media outlets are starting to reflect that in the way they cover the story, the people they interview and the terminology they employ our starting point this week, the american mainstream media and where the coverage of the palestine. israel story goes from here. we're really going to be told my americans are what americans are seen in the coverage of the palestine. israel story finally is a dominant news narrative under assault. we don't share the same, right? they turn on us news channels and here terminology. they've seldom heard attached to this country. the idea that it's even remotely controversial to call what israel has imposed on palestinians a form of apartheid is laughable. they seem more palestinian faces than the

networks usually serve on something, approaching a balance. this is a movement against their colonialism which seeks to remove palestinians and placed jewish settlers in their place when they check out the new york times. they see often and images. the paper had rarely found fit to print until now the discourse is substantially different. this time around. it remains deeply problematic, but nonetheless, it's a massive improvements over what it was like in previous massive israeli assault on god. everything changed on that israeli attack social media playing a large role in shaping the american discourse. and as one scientist, organization that we israel could do nothing right on social media. israel had gaza with it truly does feel different and it feels like it has the potential to significantly change how the world views this ongoing israeli palestinian

crisis. why now israel has sent settlers in the full to expel palestinians from their homes as it's preparing to do and shake, shut out east jerusalem. it's waged war on god 5 times since 2005 each time inflicting far more civilian casualties than it suffered, resulting in accusations of war. dr. israel has targeted news outlets as it just did when it destroyed the offices of the associated press and al jazeera in god. none of that is new. what has changed is the mobilizing fact that all the video coming out on this story has had on people thousands of miles from the holy land. and there are new communities on social media carrying back content, informal networks, built by americans to demand social justice at home. that have proven to be

adaptable. just as the progressive media have shape the american response to the george lloyd murder and led the way toward real reckoning in the american public opinion about our treatment of people of color in the united states . the same effect happened on the mainstream media and public opinion, i believe with respect to palestinians. this social media has played a great role in educating people around the word world about palestinians. when it comes to the united states with the media could not deny the video that were coming out of god. the children crying over their parents or parents burying their children. even the more sentimental videos of kids looking for their toys or finding a little gold fish that was still alive. it really spoke to the hearts of people around the world. on the coverage of this long term conflict, phonology is yet another battle ground. one word that american journalists have

long had an aversion to when describing israel systemic treatment of palestinian is a term that originated in south africa and its history of racial oppression. a part of 15 years ago when former president jimmy carter dared to use apartheid in a book title, he was deemed to have gone too far. the only american president to ever win a nobel peace prize for their work in the middle east. carter was effectively black . excellent. by both the u. s. political and media establishes. it's only one work, but the fact that american journalist and commentators are now able to authorize your call, israel and apartheid state and news outlets are allowing mass is significant. there are a number of liberals who use the word apartheid to describe israel's treatment of the palestinians. accusing israel of apartheid side is

a word that has been used by human rights watch by amnesty international. it's even been used by been tell them which is the largest israeli lead human rights organizations in israel apartheid is when you separate people based on ethnic city or brief, a nationality where one group has more rights than the other, just based on who they are. and that is fundamentally exactly what is happening in palestine, israel at this moment. and so the usage of the word apartheid is not just something that is controversial. it's necessary. the fact that we're having a conversation, journalist and news rooms or writing articles about the question of the vehicle of parts, either you call it a mac, cleansing, all that, i think this enormously positive shift in people, not merely being willing to rethink their assumptions, but being capable of re thinking that people have recognized what gods with repairs and sort of the men of the us. mainstream media are slowly moving in the right direction on this store. sometimes though with a k. so 2 steps forward, one step back. take the example of 22 year old emily wild,

recently hired by the associated press to work in arizona. 4 days after the israelis blew up the eighty's offices in gaza. wilder was fired pro israel elements online had publicized some of wilder's pro palestinian social media posts from her college days. the best defense for those who want to defend israel for bombing a p. i is good in effect, accused of being in bed. uh huh. and then you just start searching for dirt and he decided to throw a young journalist who by the way, jewish, just to throw or under the bus. it's pretty breathtaking. the suggestion is that if you are an activist and the part of all right, i mean you can't be a journalist, reports objectively. the truth at the end of the day is that everybody has biases.

and all you can do is be honest about these biases. so that we understand where the reporting is coming from, what shape? so this idea that you must exclude anybody who has a history of advocating for policy and human rights. while people who have much more nefarious histories of being participants in an illegal occupation and a system of apartheid, that's a double standard that's just simply absurd. 2 0, journalists like canadian born mattie friedman, now based injuries the a p employed him in israel until 2014, after he had done a student in the israeli army. last week, friedman filed a story for another us new the atlantic, whose editor in chief, american, jeffrey told, moved to israel in his twenties, volunteered for the army and was a guard and a prison tories for its treatment of powers. permit new york times political columnists, david brooks and former jerusalem bureau chief, ethan bronner,

both of them american have had sons in the israeli army. and on the broadcast side, there's news anchor splits. his bio on cnn site is thick with details on the stories. he's covered, the interviews. he's conducted the honorary degrees. he's received not one mention though, of his former journal, secure at the biggest, the most influential pro israel lobby group of them all. 8. there's a strong israel today, a vibrant israel that is not going to disappear for a pack of destroyed to stake solution back in the eighty's and story. i always wanted to know this guy is forgiven his resume. i think that let's understand that his job is not just for his job is to get a range of opinion and that he feels a responsibility then wait

a minute is the same for he's now in gaza. you're there. you're and i witnessed to just of emily wilder, the very young person who had done good work in college. i'm sure it was going to be strenuously trying to do her job as a double standard isn't not. we're not doing the media outlet to be pro palestine. i don't need emily to be pro probably fine. i don't need journalist to be pro problem. i need you to be objective to tell us what the facts are on the ground and the facts are very committed. there is an occupation that is illegal and funded by the us government. the apartheid is to your to see john, god is clear. and unfortunately, the double standard is because if the american people truly knew what was happening in palestine and knowing that it is funded by their tax payer dollars, i think they would be a resurgence of a resistance that the government of the united states america would not be able to, ah,

a passenger plan was forced to land in minsk bella roost last weekend in what initially appeared to be a bomb scare, but turned out to be a ploy by the lucas shackle government to arrest a journalist, romano protest savage monopoly rob. he's been following the story, mina, why did the bell or russian authorities go to such great lengths to get this guy for the se, which is a 26 year old, who co founded an edited a channel called next on the messaging platform, telecom that channel played a big roy in documenting and organizing some of the protest that broke out last year against the election of president alexander shinkel. now put the savage, who no longer works with next, was able to do his journalism in relative safety from lithuania, where he's been in exile since last year. late last year in november he was charged enough censure with organizing rights and inciting social hatred. last sunday, put the savage was on a reiner flight, heading back to lithuania from

a conference in greece. the plane was over bel ocean airspace when the crew received orders to land in minutes because of the possibility of explosives on board. as soon as the flight landed, put the sandwich and his girlfriend was arrested by the elevation authorities, unsurprisingly, no bombs were found on the flight. and the state owned beller. she news agency has reported that lucca shinkel himself issued the order for the flight to land in minsk. so protest savage is behind bars. where has the story gone since there? well, the bell edition government has released a video for the savage, but it bears all the hallmark of a false confession. suggests for those who are getting lots and lots of fish says he's being treated lawfully, but the bruises on his face tell a different story. meanwhile, western governments are professing outraged some have imposed sanctions. they say more coming, but there is an element of hypocrisy in the reaction to this story. is there not?

how quickly they forget, be reported in the case of edward snowden, the former us intelligence employee who leaked classified documents to journalists back in 2013, at that time a plane carrying the former bolivian president. even morales was forced to land in austria because the obama administration mistakenly thought edward snowden was on board. the united states received a lot of criticism for that. but nothing like what bella luce is facing right now. ok, thanks. hungary, poland, and serbia. what do they have in common? they're all ex soviet bloc. countries that since shedding their communist ideologies have turned into a liberal democracies with some authoritarian habits such as controlling their news media. you can now add another country to that list, slovenia. the ex yugoslav state of just 2000000 people has in the past year suffered a drastic decline in press freedom. that coincided with the re election of prime minister yanis yankee, a one time anti communist campaigner, turned right winger,

whose now into with 3rd stint as prime minister. his 1st week, back in office, in march of 2020, was the same week that slovenia confirmed its 1st case of covert 19. and the pandemic has turned out to be a handy little pretext for the prime minister to clamp down on the press. listening posts. flo phillips now on the annis young shot, and his self proclaimed war with the meeting. oh, sure. you see mean girls, i have a lot of experience with serious threats. and i've been placed on the police protection many times. but the threats i received last march when nothing like anything i've experienced before. equality over 30, march 2020, to virginia, like the rest of europe, is going into lockdown. and like journalists across the continent, like gaga,

scrutinizing his government's response to the pandemic. he publishes an investigation into something called crisis h q, a secretive, seemingly unconstitutional government body set up by the libyan prime minister to coordinate the countries of iris strategies. fanatic. on the very same evening that i published my investigation by minister janish on shot me of being a lawyer on twitter simulation. he that's the after the pro young. sure media like nova 24. he started publishing news about me on a daily basis. the last guy he got there with india began receiving a lot of threats, saying that i should be beaten up, shot kill, sucks. i mean, come one even broke into my house. like any journalist i can handle criticism, but it's different when it's the prime minister. young show himself is the chief

agitator in this war with the more you are in his me, ah, saying that the prime minister, sabina, is that quote, war with the media might sound like high public. but those are the words that the prime minister, just weeks after a steaming off it. faced with the covert crisis, young township published an open letter, not on how to deal with the pandemic, but rather how to deal with the press. his suggestion use twitter as an antidote to the country media monopoly. i would say that i was not surprised in a way by dislike or of course one can always hope that someone will come to the census and focus on the health group. but unfortunately, as soon as he became prime minister, piece to defeat showed that there is no such thing as com and down or taking time off with that can jolly ah, and in

a way the letter about the war with the media. for the continuation of that approach, it basically said yourself as a frogs being slowly cooked and even use that metaphor. and, you know, if there was one things to fear in that latter, it was bad because we are kind of the frogs waiting for the water to boil. this war has been going on for at least 15 years. right now we're in version 3 and it looks like there's no holds barred. ah, version 3. that refers to the fact that this is anxious 3rd time as prime minister and versions one and 2 all the way they ended help explain his contempt for the civilian press. his close government was voted out in 2008, after reported, uncovered his role in a shady on his 2nd time came to an end in 2013 during

a media fire store over the under reporting of his taxable asset. so you mentioned his crows did his convenient democratic parties, politics in opposition to the mainstream media, among his most frequent target devine as national press agency, the sta and it's national broadcast the tv. it's a form in a tried and tested in other countries. still finding the way in the european union yellow piano is to, sabrina, was, victor will be honest, hungry, or get a chance give to poland. both 3 from the political rights for the 1st selected, national leaders in the 1990 s or mid 2000. and then we'll go to out of office learning lessons along the way. all 3 then returned to town with a plan, bring the domestic media to heal. what said young sher, apart from kuchinski and all bon however, it's a, he knows this kind of story from both sides. he's a former journalist,

moving out of laguna as a young journalist, yansa exposed secrets of the yugoslav army for which he was sentenced to prison. the part at the time he was held up as a symbol of civilians transition to democracy. but practically overnight, he became the defense minister and started going after journalists investigating the weapons trade trevino's origins, mccardie shaw, when he returns as prime minister in 2004, he managed to take control of the public. he appointed the car salesmen, a c o of our tv, and put a government p r consulting su o, p s t, like he got his way. this is what he wants to do. again, she needs to be donna except this time instead of just controlling the s t a, he wants to shut it down. in february young, she suspended all state funding. and the s t i need to ship is now concerned that by july the national press agency will be bankrupt. donna, samantha,

all is this taxable media organizations, anjenet. alarm bells. pillars include on the on she had to attend the hearing in march. yeah. we didn't go well, a sophie the new field, sophie in developed monitors, media, freedom of the european parliament, put together a live zoom hearing that he agreed to attend. however, during the hearing, he demanded to play a 16 minute long propaganda video about how he sees the media and so vimeo. i would now like to ask this video to be played in putting football to millionaires over there when they write to denied his request, cried censorship. it seems that you don't want to play this video because of it's content in the stone. all you simply disconnected and left the meeting. i've been told that the prime minister has disconnected so i take it that the session was not

liking. could marina sammy late that but generally know if the chair woman of the european parliamentary committee doesn't agree, i don't think that's reason enough to area toys. of those that i look at the me put a viable verbal and physical attacks on journalists took place in slovenia by and large during the left leaning governments. the media outlets were talking about the video. none of them actually. we are doing and we got high rating casually made recycled later on that doris thomas inch, tv host and chief editor at nova 24 t b, one of a number of new right wings to be me and meteor out that that part funded by the sds party and played a key role in amplifying its political agenda and youngsters online targeting of the media. no one from the government was made available to discuss the edge of the tax on the price. but thomas shit was willing to speak on behalf of not just his network, but his prime minister to be honest. the hope of it isn't the honest young shot

allowed to express his view this live in the media landscape. doesn't the film shop have the right to state that the media is waging war on him and not the other way around? he's defending himself. the media monopoly in slovenia, which is gradually being the mortgage model. it started being torn down when number 24 to be launched. and now it's being turned down by the government as well. i have to say that along the media content and statements that we have been fact checking in the past 2 years. now the 24 tv is one of the main source of information and this information into the obvious public campaign against journalists and against media. relentless, we can only hope that the aggressive behavior, or rather the aggressive rhetoric of disco room and will not be reflected in actual physical violence. we know that in

a number of european countries that they were killings and assassination of journalists in countries such as slovakia, malta, and greece recently. i know that there is a number of journalists and editors who are actually afraid that something could happen. the prime minister, however, seems unapologetic unashamed, and that to me cause for his impeachment in parliament and on the street a severe, prepared to celebrate 30 years of its independence. young young sher, it's fighting battles at home and abroad. his rule, however, is with the media. and finally, life was so much easier for a racist before mobile phones came along and the videos they captured started to go viral. we've seen people get cancelled lose their jobs, their places in school, despite protestations that those tell tale moments aren't who they really are. so

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