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we army were attacking ringer, and now they're attacking everyone in me on monday. you regret, well, it's 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 sera. part of the vine is calling on the intelligence community to step up its efforts to figure out the origin, the lab, and who hom suggested. the virus would actually gain further attention this week because a number of china has denied the possibility of state media calls. it a conspiracy theory. hello are much it gets burning your at the listening post where we don't cover the news we cover the way the news is covered. here are the media stories we're examining this week. natural emergence or laboratory leak. there are competing theories on the origins of kobuck $19.00, and $1.00 of them is attracting more and more coverage. don't cross the red lines

when pakistani journalists do that, they end up in trouble. they will not be erased. the museum in hong kong that's contesting. the official chinese narrative on t animal square and showing symptoms of the post pandemic blues. you received many who's really ready to leave their face masks behind a year and a half into the pandemic. and one of the 1st questions asked about cope with 19 is making a comeback in the news coverage. where exactly did the virus originate? how did it come to be? the theory that it was born in a bad possibly transmitted through another animal and made its way to humans in hong china remains the scientific consensus. recently, another theory initially dismissed that the pandemic started at a laboratory and a woo hot after the virus accidentally leaked. as we emerged, to the extent that the white house now wants that idea be investigated. and soon.

bay jang rejects the hypothesis out right. but gives that life raises suspicions by denying investigators the kind of access they want. no longer seen as a fringe conspiracy. the so called lab leak theory is gaining momentum amongst some scientists and journalists, some of whom contended this story. as the makings of a cover up, but how much evidence is there that humans gave the virus it start? the answer is not much. our starting point this week is the institute of virus ology in hon. china. so how do we get here? how does that theory come back from the lab leak theory, which was previously hoc bike therapy, parents might actually be credible. how did a scientific talk that was always changed 19 was born in a chinese laboratory, make its way back into the main. everybody's starting to change their tune on the likelihood of the lab week cove. it origin. how did it from the fringes of

journalism outlets like the washington times and bright bargaining to the pages of the new york times. and the wall street where the bottom has told intelligence agencies they need to redouble their efforts. and why would president barton to dismiss the theory when it was being touted by his predecessors, the border, and his intelligence officials to investigate the idea all over again. we really know this is a weird situation where it feels like the media is almost creating the media. so an article come out in the media and other people write about what came out of the media. so it's not so much that there's new evidence, but there's a lot more articles coming out, suggesting other putative ways. it could've been from the lab, whether it's created or was leaked accidentally. so i don't think to be conspiracies ever went away. but from a scientific perspective, these arguments seem to be re litigating the exact same pieces of information that we've been discussing for the last day till now. that's why when i see these

headlines, it seems to me more about this ongoing desire to have a soul. they don't serve rather than necessarily anything new that we like. we've also seen a lot of research coming from people who have existing peace with mainstream scientific consensus to write about this crystal climate deny ridley in the u. k. for the spectator. nicholas wade, who wrote a book that was widely condemned for it's racism about genetics. but incidentally, makes startling claims about asian culture and science. so without going to at home and such, we can say that the credentials or some of the people who are being leaned on here, i'm not right i. it's been that way since it's born in a lab. there was not help by some of it's proponent, have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the will have instituted. virology was the origin

of this when reporters heard donald trump talking about it, they filed that away. along with things like trump prescribing americans, drink bleach as a covey to and then i see the disinfectant with not in a minute or his secretary mike, palm paid, laying the blame. remember trying to have a history of infecting the world. there was a kind of guilt by association that some have since inverted. yes, i think a lot of people are back on their face to some things may be true or even donald trump. nevertheless, the ex president did some long term damage to the lab leak theory, which is advocate controversial fans like nicholas way. i'd have to contend the general hypothesis of the lab leak is that the bars escape from that barge in the middle of the institute where we know that they were studying career of ours.

we know they were work in rather low level safety conditions. and so it wouldn't be no surprise such of ours as to why it has been ignored for so the public narrative was seized right from the beginning by 2 small groups about issues who are british letters in leading scientific journals, the alarm system, nature medicine, pu, pulling the idea of lab escape saying it was an absurd conspiracy theory. now, these to that is, should have been challenged by the mainstream press. conspiracy theory is, is a device for, you know, it's condescending, it will only inflame to so i think it's really important that journalists, when they hear that, scientists are now saying there should be investigation to not take a leap and say that now means there's a lab li scientists will always say more studies are needed, that every story i cover, there's always more studies needed. they don't have all the data they want. that

doesn't mean that, and something's true because there's doubt doesn't mean that something's true. wall street journal investigation recently is a great example. it said that 3 people in china from the institute for ology had attended a hospital in november 2019. but that's not really new evidence saying that there is a lab leak. that's just a vaguely, circumstantial piece of information that doesn't really prove much either way. the deeper one digs into the lab leak theory that clearly there is no smoking. but news like nature abhors a vacuum and aging has helped create one by making it harder to investigate. president, feature and pain government kept the una world health organization informed of the outbreak in the early stage in late 2019 but has been far less open to allowing

w h o investigators to see the lab for themselves. that w h o did make it into move on in january. and although there was never a likely that it, scientists would be able to prove that cov, it emerged natural from animals to human. when they did, the advocates of the lab leak theory jumped on that and convinced many news outlined to form the w h. o commission to asian was very important because he set the stage for the sudden change in what we can say was that the chinese authorities had not a shred of evidence to offer the commission in favor of natural imagines. if you look at this much more detail and deliberate attempts to suppress all information about, the vars move on to night says you've been told she enters syndrome, you know,

do you when you build up? so here's the thing from the start. we needed to investigate this, but it's a remote possibility, but it's a possibility. the problem is that china will not allow that. this would be the case no matter how the virus originally did, even if the chinese properties had to put it on tape of some random market worker being bitten by a box and immediately sneezing. it is the very nature of the pieces to drive in secrecy. any discussion of a lab leak seems to come back to china's fault. people want to lay the blame on a specific group of individuals and that poisons the well. and that sensationalism has kind of infected the discussion because we're now releasing the exact same points that we were discussing in february, march 2020. except now it's saying ah, the discussion is re ignited even though it kind of hasn't me for

journalists a lot. depends on getting this story right in the organizations they work for, like the governments, they report on need their publics to trust. the geo politics makes some of the reporting prone to sensationalist. the modern day economics of the news industry that could be required do not help, but ultimately though it comes down to the site, what does it say? nothing absolutely conclusive. but the absence of any real evidence that covet 19 leaked from a laugh is evidence of a kind that there's nothing to see. and a scientist and journalist is working on past viral outbreaks have learned. it will take awhile years probably before we get the certainty we crave on how this pandemic got to start. and remember, this is effectively says 2 sides traveling over a 1000 miles from where it was 1st detected. and it took

us 14 years to pick together the complete pattern of how the transfer occurred. we see in a big push, recently declaim, the more evidence along the lines of stuff that frankly, has largely turned out to be me who humans. we like a binary choice, it's either elaborate or it's not. and the back of the matter is that we simply don't know and we may never know. it may be like a bowler 40 for years in the future. we still aren't sure precisely where this far as came from those and the challenge is how do we communicate the public to say that even if we don't find a smoking gun for an unnatural origin, it doesn't necessarily make the alternative any more likely or true at all it means is that we still don't know,

and i'm indicating uncertainty is one of the hottest things as scientists that we can do. and i think it, it will remain a challenge moving forward. some journalists in pakistan have been speaking out, some are paying the price for that one was assaulted at his home last week. correct, and offers been following the story. talk. busy what can you tell us about the case of a sad alley tour tool is a john list to use his youtube channel to scrutinize the pakistani government and military. he says 3 men who identified themselves as intelligence officers kind of as house, tied him up and beat him up. he said he was told the i a fi, the into services intelligence agency, and the ministry will quote, not happy with john. and asked him why he named the i s i in his reporting, the pakistani authorities of denied any involvement and claim that tor faked the attack so that he can claim, filed them abroad. and now

a journalist who has spoken out against what happened is facing the consequence. yes. during a protest in support of tour, one, a packet on best known tv preventive hunted me, implied, pack of found powerful military establishment was responsible. thought it was somebody that give me what i need to like, man, i'm alone. not only you, but speech when borrow and man has not been taken off the g o u, so no longer host the show capital talk, but he says he won't be file, and this is a man who's already survived an assassination attempt for his reporting. his shot twice back in 2014. we covered that story back then. that this, what happened the mir? it's part of a larger trend in pakistan. that's why richard and even before prime minister, him on con, came to power in 2018. john, this was speaking out about censorship, about increased fear and intimidation, but think of only got one since that in july 2020 tv journalist marcela john was

abducted gods and beaten. and just a few months ago, another john, as of the alarm, was shot and wounded close to his home. no rest were made in either case. okay, thanks tar. it's been 32 years this week since one of the biggest pro democracy demonstrations, mainland china has ever seen, came to a violent end. and it remains a story that most chinese citizens know very little about. the t animal square protests began in april 9, 989. they were led by students for nearly 2 months. hundreds of thousands of people would take part before the military was called in. to this day, we still do not know the exact death toll, and that is by design the countries communists. leaders have tried to erase the piano and square massacre from china. history. survivors have been scared into silence, merely referring to the date, june, 4th,

1989. can land you in jail. distance outside the mainland though are doing what they can take. the june 4th museum in hong kong. it's raised on deck is to educate visitors, including those from the mainland on what really happened in 1989. let's me post joanna who's now with a story about memory history and official attempts in beijing to bury the 989 days chinese communist party has tried to raise from the country's collective memory overnight. thousands of pro democracy protesters were thumbs down and based on the borders of their own government, it became known as the chinaman square massacre stories from that day, memories had been preserved in the museum in hong kong. i thought to the idea of

this museum during the 20th anniversary of cameron's for moscow, because at that time we can see a whole generation of young people, not knowing what happened in the people china completely wrong on the thing. what happened? we want chinese people coming to hong call to get the best so that they can go back to the 9089. the mock me as somebody who grew up in china and went through the education system. the 1st time i got to know the event was in high school, and there was one sentence in my history book which said in the summer and spring of 989, there was a student protests and they created a disturbance. a lot, mainland chinese, they go to hong kong and they will visit the museum because that is the place that

you can see with all these images that depict what had happened and the museum print via this space for you to understand. they had to own a more personal level determined claim not to come brought a lethal in 2 weeks of math demonstration. they started in april when university students met to commemorate the death of the communist parties, former chairman, the reformers, who had been ousted by hard liners together and quickly grew into a protest about freedom of speech, corruption, and economic and political reform. april 26, the communist party published your front page and tour you in the people's daily calling the movement of premeditated conspiracy. with an empty party and to socialist agenda, that editorial backfired galvanized thousands to join the student. the government did not back down. that's when we decided to hold hunger strike and

then media in china, they turn on our side. those journalist must have felt that the young kids were dying for, you know, the freedom that day as an older generation and journalist took flight for themselves. so when that new spread over the country, the movement spread from aging to about $250.00. we were coming to the great hold people by the premier. i was the we had delegator. it has about, well, the don't what is on that where she was under the show, we thought to me, gave a long monologue criticizing the student. and, and so i decided to interrupt him. why don't i mailed it over the

weekend? no communist leaders have covers codes, they could be dressed on by or some 21 year old like that in front of the full. that was the time government backed up using military the and put a number of people died. this ruling call mr. party would just take whatever action is needed to hold onto our 1st of all, it wants to eliminate the phone people memory. secondly, from the parties perspective, this is an anti government anti states action. so whatever step that it was taken is totally justified me from

most to the last 32 years. the story of the massacre has gone untold in china, and that's the way they want to fit. today, students will find no reference to it in their school books. the media is firmly under party control, and the dissonance that remain in china have been silenced. even dimension of the date can result in a prison sentence. there are lots of people that tried to commemorate june inside china and the rest. and therefore, the only time to bomb the written is to do it outside. so the people in china, they can come on call from disney. we have you at the video in the morning of the law and they can ah, and we have to do that to bring that censorship inside china try now.

there is no google if you tried to search the word gentlemen will find it. it's just fine to make the whole country forget if they cannot make the people who participated, who witnesses 989 to the movement to forget. at least they're hoping the younger generations can't forget about an activist in hong kong are making sure they won't forget for 32 years, every june. 4th, they've held vigils to commemorate the victim. but under the leadership of siege and ping, china has been tightening its grip. on the city last year it imposed a new security load, which criminal license and version secession and sedition against the mainland. it triggered instant protest. ah, the museums found a lead. young is just one casualty of asians crackdown on may 28th. he was found

guilty of organizing and combined with a previous conviction. it means he will spend 20 months in to the authorities are also coming to the museum. this week police launched in investigation into its licenses or interview took place week before the sentencing . when he was already feeling his freedom slipping away, the congress body was in the nation all day up using it in a very arbitrary way. the red line can always ship and they can always strangle. and therefore, 1st we have this line after that we have. so that even the physical museum was being suppressed, we can still continue with on i was on call has always been a very important channel for to, for ideas,

freedom to try to people. it's a, it was a free feed. so a millions of chinese people go to home, come, they have a chest to have some access to the outside world information and trying to, jim knows that little excess can become very dangerous when you spread back to china. so they tried their very, very hardest to keep hong kong control in 1989. when hong kong was still a british colony, a 1000000 people march there and still a territory with the chinaman square. protesters in 2019 and new generation took to those same street. no fighting with shame telling china to keep attends of their freedom, even at the risk of history, repeating itself at their expense. 32 years ago it was. people in the mainland

now is that people call so or the party wants to take away people wide to the freedom of speech, the freedom of hotel to ride, to vote for their own government. all fundamentally are the same. when you look at this, behind the comparison to the longest, you know, people who feel the similarity, the passion, democracy, multiple generation in a way, what happened in $89.00 for the full advocate. they want to send and and sold the business very much rather than today. ah, in and finally with vaccination rates on the rise and many countries loosening their restrictions. what

becomes of our closest companions in these times of social distances? our face masks. they've seen us through the ups and downs. they've kept us safe more to the point. they've made us feel safe. so do we just dispense with them in this next tick, tock, video, american, actor, and comedian, vic christian. i talks about the awkward breakup. conversation capturing the put it on again, take it off again. relationship that many of us have had with our masks. but 1st, a warning, some viewers may find the following video, strangely, movie, was the next time. here with the listening post. hey, can we talk? oh yeah, sure. remember when we went to walgreens a couple weeks ago to get gummy bears here. while i was asked you to get the 2nd dose of the backseat. seem to do what any you mean

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taken from their homes and executed under pressure vinnish. well as defense minister by the me to pay the, you know, said the forces were obliged to the friends that come through probably regular groups that added the human rights needed to be respected. and that the events at the border would be investigated. ah, i burnt out thinking shape is still pausing a grave right off the coast of sri lanka, cruz, the bracing for a potential oil spam. ah, play you watching al jazeera alive from bill. how would me back people also coming out catholic church in canada is silent, is not stepping up. canada's prime minister calls on the catholic church to take responsibility for its role in the abuse of indigenous children. a tough task ahead,

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