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algebra, arabic channels throughout the day, checked your raw has been a flash point in recent days and months has been tension. there are plans to forcibly evict palestinian families. honda abil, hamid has more now from occupied east jerusalem. the 1st charges that they wanted to put on is that she had assaulted as female israeli soldier. but then because there were all these videos around and really the moment of her detention was filled from all sides, the lawyer showed that to the office that those charges were dropped. and now the charge is that she didn't make herself known. she didn't identify herself. but keener fossils. government says armed men of killed at least a 100 civilians in the northeast of the country. governments as homes and a market will burned to the ground in the villages fell hands close to the port

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for the violence calling on the intelligence community to step up a separate to figure out the board, your lab and who hon. just the virus with accidentally gained further attention this week because with a number of colon, china has denied the possibility of state media calls it a conspiracy theory. hello, warmer to gisburne. you are 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. and one 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 arrest the museum in hong kong. that's contesting the official chinese narrative on piano and square and showing symptoms of the post pandemic blues. you have feet 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's 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 the theory come back from the lab leak theory, which was previously hoc bike therapy theory 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 print. 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 apps to the pages of the new york times. and the wall street president bottom has told intelligence agencies they need to redouble their efforts. and why would president barton who dismissed the theory when it would be counted 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. does 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 accidentally. so i don't think to be conspiracies ever went away. but from a find typical perspective, these arguments seem to be re litigating the exact same pieces of information that we've been discussing for the last 8 months. 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 its racism about genetics, but incidentally, makes startling claims about asian culture and science. so without going to home. and in such we can say that the credentials of some of the people who are being leaned on here and all 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, which ever 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 syria, which is advocate, controversial fair. like nicholas way, i've had 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 had to skate 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 2 that should have been challenged by the mainstream press. conspiracy theory is, is a device before you know, it's condescending, it will only inflame choose, but 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 lee, scientists will always say more studies are needed. that's 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 university 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 the clearly there is no smoking gun. but news like nature abhors a vacuum. and aging has helped create one by making it harder to investigate. president feature and things government kept the un 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 t to make it into move on in january. and although there was never a likely that it, scientists would be able to prove that coven emerged natural from animals to human . when they did, the advocates of the lab leak theory jumped on that and convinced many news outlet to follow. the w h o commission to beijing was very important because it set the stage for the sudden change in what we can say was that the chinese of our students had not a shred of evidence to offer the commission in favor of natural emotions. if you look at this and see a much more detail and deliberate attempts to suppress all information about the vice move on to night. well, you've been told she interest syndrome, you know,

do you when you build the thing from the start, we've 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 will be the case, no matter how the virus originated, even if the chinese all parties had to put it on tape of some random market worker being bitten by a boss and immediately sneezing. it is the very nature of the pieces to thrive 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 when now re, lisa getting the exact same points that we were discussing in february, march 2020. except now it's saying all the discussion is re ignited, even though it kind of hasn't me for journalists

a lot. depends on getting this story right. and 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 science, what does it say? nothing absolutely conclusive. but the absence of any real evidence that covert 19 leaked from a laugh is evidence of a kind that there's nothing to see. and a scientists and journalists working on past viral outbreaks have learned. it will take away 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 me who humans. we like binary choices. 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 this to 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 kidding. 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 a 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, or quote, not happy with his 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 package 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. minimal, 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 mere, 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 the fence ship 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 1989. 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 communist 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 listening posts joanna, who's now with a story about memory history and official attempts in beijing to vary the 989 days china communist party has tried to raise from the country's collective memory . overnight, thousands of pro democracy protesters were thumbs down in beijing on the borders of their own government. it became known as a 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 the tenants. 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 99. 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, are wrong. the summer and spring of $989.00, there was a student prototypes 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 all of this images that depict what had happened and the museum print via this space for you to understand it on a more personal level determined claim not to come brought a lease or end 2 weeks of math demonstration. they started in april when university students met to commemorate the death of the communist parties, former chairman, ever former, who had been ousted by hard liners together and quickly grew into a protest about freedom of speech, corruption, and economic and political reform. on april 26th, 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

a 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 all over the country, the movement spread from aging to about 250. we were summoned to the great hold people by the premier. i was the we had delegator. it had these on 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 mail over the

weekend? no, communist leaders have covers codes. they could be dressed on the buyers from 21 year old like that in front of the full. that was the time government to correct 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 won't 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 rhythm is to do it outside so that people in china, they can come to on call from disney. we have you at the video in the morning, 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. 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 protests. the museums found a lead young is just one casualty of asian 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 for the museum. this week police launched investigation into its licenses or interview took place weeks before li sentencing. when he was already feeling his freedom slipping away, the congress body was in the nation's april. or they are 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 speech. so a millions of times people go to hong kong. they have a chest to have some access to the outside world information. and the chinese re, jim knows that little excess can become very dangerous when it spread back to china . so they tried their very, very hardest to keep hong kong control. in 190809. when hong kong 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 a tense 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 are 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 this fundamentally the same. when you look at this, behind the comparison to the longest, you know, people who feel the similarity, the passion, democracy, multiple degeneration in a way, what happened in $89.00, you know, for the full advocate. they won't rate and democracy 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? you know, 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 back seen to do any, you mean pfizer?

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jazeera ah, ah, ah, i'm marianne demise in london with a quick look at our main stories now. and now is there a reporter is in custody and occupied east jerusalem after being arrested by israeli police. the arbitrary was beaten and then then they're gone. she's been doing lives on algae. there is arabic channels throughout the day. you there has really.