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but insisting that al jazeera will not be silence. they broke my hand, i spent all the night in the hospital, my heart and my back hurts me a lot. and he had my hand from the coughs, and also they heard so much because though the soldiers in the car were fighting it all the time they, they want the camera to be broken as they broke it yesterday with my colleague the beam as though they wanted the microphone to be on the gaunt, but we are telling them that the microphone and the come at all we say, and we will continue. nothing will stop us, nothing. we face more than this, and we will continue. alright, now mexicans are heading to the polls for the countries biggest ever elections. voters, there are choosing members of the lower house of congress as well as thousands of local politicians if midterm versus also seen as a referendum on the policy is the president on the manual that has applied all.

well, meanwhile, voting is also under way and peruse. presidential run off the races between left wing unionist petro castillo, as well as right wing populous cake, or food morning. more than 25000000 people have registered to vote and once being predicted to be a close contest, a popular niger in evangelical preacher tv joshua has died. it's believed the influential tele evangelist passed away on saturday, shortly after conducting a live broadcast. his death was announced by his church, the synagogue trach of all nations, tv. joshua was 57 years old. the u. s. is donating 750000 curve in 1900 vaccines to tie one after the island of jews. china hindering its efforts to secure supplies present, saying when thanks to us, what she calls life saving jobs. as the island struggles to contain a recent spike and infections, while those are the headlines doreen, we'll have more news for you here after the listening post. stay with them on calendar the call staff gonna sans war economy gives way for more security. as the

us, we drove through how the condo set loops 1000000000 in a deal with them is railey 1000000000 at floss. the oil giant losing for environmentalists and investors. counting the call on al jazeera part of the environment, calling on the intelligence community to step up its efforts to figure out the origin of the lab. and that some of the virus would gain further attention this week. because the numbers give us a call and the china has denied the possibility of state media calls it a conspiracy theory. hello armitage, give burn 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 piano and square and showing symptoms of the post pandemic blues. you said how 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 colbert 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 bat possibly transmitted through another animal and made its way to humans and whoo, hong china remains the scientific consensus. recently, another theory initially dismissed that the pandemic started at a laboratory and woo hot after the virus accidentally leaked as we emerged to the extent that the white house now wants that idea reinvestigate and soon bay ging

rejects the hypothesis out right. but gives that the 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 contend 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 the theory come back from the lab leak theory, which was previously hawk by conspiracy theory might actually be credible. how did a scientific hypothesis that was always changed? because at 19 was born in a chinese laboratory, make its way back into the main print. everybody's are going to change their tune on the likelihood of the lab leak 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 and the wall street, where the bottom has told intelligence they need to redouble their efforts. and why would president barton, who dismissed the theory when it would be counted by his predecessor, 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 punitive 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 from a fine typical 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 liked. we've also seen a lot of research coming from people who have existing base with mainstream scientific consensus to write about this person's 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 ad hominem such, we can say that the credentials of some of the people who are being leaned on here . i'm not 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 as a covey to and then i see the disinfectant with not in a minute or his secretary mike, palm paid lane, the blending. now 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 have 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. li theory, which is advocate, controversial fair, like nicholas way. i've had to contend the general hypothesis of the lab leak is that the virus escape from that a barge in the middle of the institute where we know that they were studying of

ours. we know they will work into other low level safety conditions, and so it wouldn't be no surprise. such of ours had a skate as to why it has been ignored for so the public narrative was c drive from the beginning by 2 small groups of our other issues who averaged 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, as should have been challenged by the mainstream press, conspiracy theory is, is a device for, 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 a 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 that 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 in pink government kept the u. n. 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 covert emerged natural from animals to human . when they did, the advocates of the lab lead theory jumped on that and convinced many news outlet to form 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 ours had not a shred of evidence to open the commission in favor of natural emotions. if you look at this, see a much more detail and deliberate attempts to suppress all information about the vice move on to and i said you've been told she interest syndrome. you know, do you when you talk?

so here's 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, but try to will not allow that. this will be the case no matter how the virus originated, even if the chinese about is how 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 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 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. ultimately though it comes down to the site, 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 scientist and journalist is 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 2 sides traveling over a 1000 miles from united way. it was 1st detected in banjo. it took

us 14 years to have 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 a lot of it turned out to me who humans. we like binary choices, it's either elaborate or it's not. and the fact 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 this to used his youtube channel to scrutinize the pakistani government and military. he says 3 men who identified themselves as intelligence officers hunt up at his 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 were quote, not happy with jonathan and asked him why he named the i s i. in his reporting, the pakistani authorities of denied any involvement and claim that tor fakes be attack so that he can claim a file 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 of pakistan's best known tv presented 100 me implied pack of found powerful military establishment was responsible thought it was somebody that give me up what i need to like. minimal, but not only you, but speech when borrow and manners not being taken off the g o u, so no longer have to show a 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 alan, was shot and wounded close to his home. no rest were made in either case. okay, thanks tom. 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 that is to educate visitors, including those from the mainland on what really happened in 1989. but listening posts joanna, who's now with a story about memory history and official attempts in beijing to bury the past. the 1989. the date chinese communist party has tried to arrange from the countries collective memory overnight, thousands of pro democracy protesters where 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 kevin's play moscow because at that time we can see a whole generation of young people, not knowing what happened in the people. china completely brock on the saying, what happened? we want chinese people coming to hong call to get the best so that they can go back to the 1989. the mocking 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 pull tabs and they created a disturbance. a lot. mainland chinese, they go to hong kong and they will have visited 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 and to own a more personal level determined claim that brought a lethal and 2 weeks of math demonstration. they started in april when university students met to commemorate the death of the communist parties, former chairman, the reformer, 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 to premeditated conspiracy. with an empty party and to socialist agenda, the 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 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 summoned to the great hold people by the premier. i was the we had delegator. it had these on what is the one that was she was under the show we thought gave a long monologue criticizing the student and, and so i decided to interrupt him. why am i?

well, i just saw with a lot that i'm no communist leaders have covers go. they could be dressed on who, by 21 year old like that in front of the full. that was the time the government is using military the and i'll put a number of people died. this ruling. com is to party would just take whatever action is needed to hold onto how long 1st of all it wants to eliminate this 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 for

most of the last 32 years. the story of the massacre has gone untold in china and the way patients 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 tend to bottom of the rhythm is to do it outside china. so that people in china, they can come to me on call and 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 in china.

there is no can go if you tried to search the word gentlemen will find it. it's just trying to make the whole country forget if they cannot make the people who participated 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 placed in a 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. the museums found leach 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 for the museum. this week, police launched an 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 to load up using it in a very arbitrary way. the red line can always ship and they can always strangle. and therefore, 1st we have the july after day that we have so that even the physical museum was being suppressed. we can still continue with on. i was has always been a very important channel for to, for ideas,

freedom to try to people. it's a, it was a priest. so a millions of chinese people go to hong kong. they have a chest to have some access to the outside world, inflammation. and the chinese regime 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 homecoming was still a british colony, a 1000000 people march there until the territory with a chinaman square protesters in 2019 a new generation to those things. street. no fighting with shame. telling china to keep a tense of their freedom, even at the risk of history repeating itself to their expend. 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 rise to vote for their own government. all fundamentally are the same. when you look at this, behind the comparison, the longest, you know, people, few of the similarities, the passion democracy, both generation in a way what happened in $89.00 for the whole advocate. they won't rate them and, and sold. this is very much relevant 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 the 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 are 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 at 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 back seen to do what any you mean

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