himself and the country at large money in every single capital, i think we used to think we had to be shoulder to shoulder with our boss. our lives revolved around the physical workspace to succeed today. 95 percent of my work is done from here at home. that provides more possibility for growth. we understand now we can't waste our time at work and must make the most of it swallowed lofty goals in a country where old habits die hard. adam rainy al jazeera roam. ah, a check on the headlight, on our 0 initial results from iran, the presidential election show hotline that abraham racy. well ahead. as expected. the 3 other candidates were the congratulations. the judiciary chief, the official final announcement, is due within hours. iran is foreign minister, java leaf is defending the electoral process despite the low voter turnout speaking

at a diplomatic event. kentucky said the legitimacy of the government is based on performance and on the constitutional protest process. rather as a bait reports from to run. many people upset and dissatisfied with peasants hasn't honey, and he government upset the handling of the economy. many believe it's due to mismanagement, although the president has some honey, the government have blame sanctions, but some people just don't buy that. they believe that the government could have done more. so people have been dissatisfied with that. and they came out and voted for abraham. right. you see? yes, he's a conservative and it was backed by the conservative and many people are talking about this unified front of conservatives. of different branches of government, it's also important to say that all those in government and even the candidates that were standing up to the right of it brain, right. you see 210 lawmakers wrote to the remainder, remaining conservative candidates, asking them to drop in favor bringing, right?

you see, and they didn't. and also, many conservatives don't agree with the 2015 nuclear deal. never supported it in the 1st place and some of those supported brain, right. so it'll be interesting to see how he deals with the differences within the conservative come the un general assembly as called on member states to help the flow of weapons into me and law. though non binding, the vote is another significant sign of global opposition into the joint seized power. the editor and chief executive of a pro democracy newspaper in hong kong have been denied bail after appearing in court. ryan law and john kim hung are accused of colluding with a foreign country. they were arrested at the offices of apple daily on thursday under the cities sweeping national security law. case has drawn international condemnation of those headlines. the news continues here and also here after the listing post coming up next. for some robot is

a mechanical or even that self driving train the apple. but androids today can be really humanoid. robots, like me, will be everywhere. al jazeera documentaries, next lead on the weird and wonderful world of robot that learn think for you and even trust. i feel like i'm alive, but i know i am a machine origins of this nation. coming soon on al jazeera kerry and jerry, we have a government operate house which has been putting deb spot right. some painters, diplomats as a gas from shipping of the bird has been china. and now hopefully that has not damaged the unity of the country in alarm. richard gilbert in europe the let's me 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. nigeria, the tweet from the president account that ended up getting twitter back right

across the country. election day in algeria, the government is feeling the heat on the street. it's responses to arrest journalists and take a broadcaster off the air. stereotypes then and now postcards from the colonial era that shaped perceptions of africa and it's people and exposing the film industry, the shaman replies, you undergo the ritual, germany, and some of the stereotypes it cannot resist to this very day. we begin with africa, the most populous country, nigeria, $200000000.00 plus a market with the most internet users on the continent. 2 weeks ago, the government led by former military man mohammed doable harry put an indefinite ban on twitter. a platform used by roughly 40000000 citizens. the ban was announced just after twitter had deleted a tweet by the president himself. that violated the companies rules on abusive

behavior. there was some threatening language and they're aimed at secessionist in the south. nigeria is 2 years away from its next national election, a country wide movement hash tagged and stars out to stop police brutality has put the bu, hardy government on the defensive. and twitter has been central to that story for organizers, activists and the journalists covering them. members of the bu, hardy government have long warned of the dangers of social media. now it's reportedly looking to china, the architect of the great firewall for ideas on how to bring critical voices under government control. our starting point this week as nigeria, the biggest city lagos. ah, to understand how twitter has come to the band in nigeria, you have to start with the history of the civil war 50 years ago, over the region of by african the war crimes that were committed,

the humanitarian catastrophe that unfold. then at in the recent flare ups and power struggles in that same area of the country, that's part of the context. and that is why president mohammed dupel hardy's tweet, the one that warned his opponent, that those of us who went through the war will treat them in the language they understand, was so offensive. the kicking about teaching people in the language to understand is like to have the jama government talking about the it's like the season one day talking about the genocide the happen back. do you mean that the women that were rip, that's the bandwidth or the band? do you mean the estimate that maybe on the board? i'm i know that when you're doing the one, the language on the band with wizards response was not to block the president's account. or to band to hurry from the platform,

just deleted his tweet for violating his policy on abusive behavior, then hurries government and blocked winter criminalized it's use for the 40000000 nigerians who have accounts for what it called undermining nigeria as corporate existing. to have allowed to do you like more to to be grecian junior to we just miss an andrea very suspect. what is the agenda with that old is what is that kid down to green? who's got to move in

if not, if most of the government have never been happening, if you need to integrate it by john goldman, i can hear you and i believe it is. but the guy with the hat and the right of the people to expression, it's a front of the on the freedom of the press, the suspicion of twitter in i, j is not about twitter. it's not even only about social media. it's about the online civic space, which is the last standard, civic space for nigerians and government wants to control the space. secondly, this is very clear in about ends of protest up to about 2020. that is where the government's antagonistic relationship with twitter was defined with the end stars movement. that piqued late last year and mobilizing the stars was a police unit,

the special anti robberies notorious for its extra judicial killing of young nigeria and for its culture of corruption. and to start movement was built around the fact that it was leaving the central and largely because of twitter. it was everywhere, faces approaches that were on this issue pretty. who am i not employed? who works on any of their things, leading to an international outcry. dudley, the biggest foot this is b, i wasn't going to be in by, in, on our platform voice to express the give police. i me caught fire in the about the put if you know, when government said so just to be a few what guess what? every 3rd, 5th of the month, you know, you go about to talk about will happen on the nice to 2020. the put the

government thought killed 4 simply by said it's got to be so good. you still alive? the reason why the protest really hit the government is because they're not used. that is kind of they used to protest whether the leader that you can reach out to maybe bryce, maybe around, maybe intimidate, but this time there wasn't a little water us. it wasn't a bite over there with pockets of the nice us across the country that doesn't what i put into the playbook of control and manipulation. so it's definitely definitely about the pettiness of getting back up to top me. twitter has also been an active critical space for nigerians unhappy with their government's handling of a struggling economy and the presidents inability to quell the secessionist movement in the south. the ban on the platform lead to a fresh round approach. and while nigeria, news outlets are able to cover the band has robbed of an importance to the media.

not all print and online outlets are complying with the ban on tweeting many or simply define broadcasters are different. nigeria is broadcasting regulator. the nbc has warned channels that, ignoring the ban would cost them their license to operate. the nbc has been direct you by next. i'm tells you, went to re, i went to the general kind of vision. for instance. they have about 4500000 for the was on twitter, then immediately taught when the announcement happens, because i don't want to be fine or did on their license if we've drawn biden i doing. business is also nice enough business is promoting. what online, talking to customers online and the tech sector helped. and julia, one of the sessions most we send it is very weird. that nigeria that will then

doing this law thought about the long term impact of what you've done, you know, on this particular sector that helped rescue nigeria from the oh, there are 130000000 nigerians age 18 or younger. it is a huge tech savvy demographic that's been circumventing the twitter bad sending search engines into overdraft looking for vps. the bu, hardy government does not mince words on the dangers it sees in the digital space. late last year, at the height of the end, the stars unrest, information minister lie mohammed told a parliamentary committee that if we don't regulate social media, it will destroy us. this past week, it was reported that mohammed met with the cyberspace administration of china, which overseas the great firewall. we asked him about that and whether china is now with devising nigeria on its approach to social media. probably somebody has grown

. my part was i never had any meetings. so we put the question another way is china's regulatory approach. a modeled the boo hurry, government wants for nigeria. we're open to going to aggression from can you part of the wood? i don't know how far they've gone, but i do know that it was there was contact with china about building an infinite firewall. i'm if as a government you place it back to us. you want to wipe it off to that people who circle invented by the d p is not going to sit down. you understand that the band is not expecting it's high. i, while it's quite an extremely expensive, i know the chinese government very well and where they have interest, they don't mind even saying, you know what, let's fund it for you guys. and that's where i think all my jillions need to become

. the problem is not the fit to national unity, the breath and i just copy, they asked me to do it would cover not everybody cares about the cares about it right here. this month than the next 2 years of the government will be for what the people turning to algeria now and a historic moment. the 1st parliament re elections there since former president i've done these beautifully, was ousted in 2019. flo phillips is here with the latest starting with how the authorities tighten the screws on the press. just before building day, which richard is something they promised they would never do just 48 hours before the polls opened. security services arrested 2 well known journalists, color dra,

runny founder of the website, caspar tribune, and f. l caught the director through media outlets. radio m and margaret and joe close out that to being critical of the government and the pair have been targeted before. oh, kathy's outlets have been blocked numerous times for supposedly insulting the president and drew any with any release from prison this past february after 11 months behind bars for undermining national security. in this case, they were released one day later, but they were out of the reporting mix for a crucial 24 hour period. which sounds tactical. exactly. and you've got to remember that dr. rennie and cardi on their outlets were threatened to prominence 2 years ago that coverage of the mass protests movement, iraq, that ended beautifully cars, 20 years and power. and that iraq movement has been back on the streets, protesting many of the same issues that they did in 2019 corruption military will, the lack of free speech. this time, however,

they were also calling on algerians to boycott the election. so the government saying with these arrests with quite clear stop opposition media from getting the word out on the boy called. but the authorities plan didn't exactly pan out the vote to turn out was very low, just 30 percent and that's the official number. that's the domestic media. what about reporting from the outside? they care about that too? they do, and it's probably got something to do with the fact that i want anyone to know about the low to turn out just a day off to the election. the ministry for communication decided to suspend the broke was license for the international news channel, france 24. now the official reason given was quote, clear and repeated hostility towards algeria and its institutions. and this goes back to another historic grievance. france, $24.00 is owned by the french government, which has repeatedly rejected requests from algiers for some kind of official recognition or apology for the atrocities that were committed by france during that

period of colonial will. now this past january, president macro said that they will be quote, no repentance and no apology. the algerian government was equally unapologetic when it took from 24 of the banks. in the late 19th century, there was a form of mass media, a visual one, the pre dated television by about 50 years. and he guesses as to what that medium was. postcards, postcards were a european media phenomenon. the photos let people see the world without leaving their home. and like many modern forms of media, they were visual cheap and relatively easy to distribute. but it was the era of colonialism, and postcards were also a means of asserting racial superiority. photographers were sent with colonizers to take pictures of what they saw, sometimes of what they wanted to see, from the most mundane aspects of life to some disturbing images of colonial brutality. the european powers went home long ago,

but the stereotypes in those images continue to shape perceptions of africa today. the listening posts talking often now on the legacy of postcard from days gone by. law is free for us now to take some postcard as a kind of happy snap from holidays. right. sort of wish you were here to family and friends. they were in their own day a new media craze. they were produced specifically to construct a particular image of africa and african scramble for africa occurred 880 fourish where you are p in power is basically carved up different parts of africa. to colonize part of that process was to somehow justify colonization. why one nation would take over another nation. they sent

missionaries, they sent auditions, and they sent photographers, the people with the cameras get to dictate how we see who we think we're seeing what we think we're seeing. and so i think that's part of what makes those images so dangerous. images that show europe civilizing mission. men wanted it to be seen. the monuments of empire courthouses churches ports and train stations. and local. those in need of civilizing photography with a major component of european colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th century was the golden age of postcards. an early form of math media. the images taken by an assortment of commercial photographers, missionaries as no defense and convenient administration printed and posted back

home, billions of time, shaping years of africa and the orient. they come under 3 very themes, the kind of highly sexualized eroticized woman, you know, arab woman or african women, bare chested, often posed in the suggestive way. the other theme would be africans, as servers, you know, always in a kind of domesticated state, servants, to colonial administrators. or missionaries or military personnel, and then the 3rd, the african savage, you know, african warriors, a savage as uncivilized not to be trusted me. this is nigeria, and it's titled evil hunters with guns. and this was a very common type showing sort of the rarity or the savagery of,

of africans and particularly as hunters. and so this particular image is basically just showing them in their everyday clothing. and you can see that it's actually been stage to some extent because you have 2 individuals on either side who are kneeling and sort of looking directly at the camera. so the and understanding of cooperation and collaboration between this image photographers carefully selected both objects and mess around for those in the business offending prescott. there was a commercial interest in making images that sounds like are in some ways fit into a preexisting by. you can see that clearly in images from frances colonial encounter with north africa faced with women who did not conform with their exotic fantasy photographer simply made up photos that did. ah, they had this mythology of algerians is kind of over sexualized. they had the image

of the hair in their mind, but when they arrived, the algerians looked nothing like the french had imagined them. many of the women were bailed or covered, and so they were inaccessible to the photographer's gaze. they ended up hiring people to act as models. they set up studios. they asked the women to pose in the way that the colonizers had imagined those people. then they produced postcards and sent them back to france to say, this is what these people are like. and they need our help. this is a damage occur mercy driven business. and it was the photographer's people running photographic studios that were looking for cards that they could sell. they could sell cheaply. all these post carpet assistant, photographers were copying each other. they were roofless and stealing other people's ideas and images. so this is the way in which he, jesus can reproduce themselves over time. all the lands is

depicted in the police gone so long since one their independence. but the cultural impact, the stain of the imagery lives own, you can trace the link between depictions of black and brown bodies today. and the often degrading and orientalist depictions of the colonial period. then like now, the bodies of those deemed in some way. i'm more likely to show up in the media, starving, destitute naked odette. the only bodies that we see in the media are usually brown and black bodies from other countries that end up producing and vision of the world where violence is something that happens elsewhere to nameless victims. i used to think that something about being an american was the reason that we didn't see americans bodies in the media. but then i saw michael brown's body on the front page of the new york times and he's an american. so it seems to me that there's something different operating that she had for us to ask questions about whose bodies are made visible,

whose bodies are hidden and why and what work those images do. the continuing visions or images of kind of black death and trauma, has definitely continued from the past. those images are enduring. if you have no association with the person as a human being, when that humanity is removed, it's easier to think about that person as, as, as an object. almost like a scientific, you know, object. there is no agency, there is no humanity i. there are layers to these postcards. they tell us a lot about the colonial mindset and, and the time before photos appeared in newspapers, they also serve as a form of photo journalism. but to many of these images stripped the subjects of humanity, they are the visual expression of a racial hierarchy. today,

pictures like the 4th of confront how those who thought themselves, who peria, constructed an image of those deemed the we examining and critiquing. these postcards really helps us understand the nuances of history. the postcards themselves moved through so many different facets of life at the time, whether it's the post office or through colonial offices right through the hands of everyday citizens. these were artifacts, they really made it into every niche of life. and so we really should understand them as artifacts of our histories, tangible objects that have come through history with us. me. people have talked a lot about have photoshop or video manipulation has introduced the possibility that images can be doctored or falsified. but what these colonial photographs show

is that they've always been doctored and falsified. they've always been put to political use. and it's our jobs become viewers who are more critical and better able to see what they actually show, which is the violence of the colonial vision to become viewers capable of looking past the margins and rescuing the information that is there that we are trained not to look at oh, i'm finally, i'm more contemporary form of stereotyping hollywood style. the movie industry leans heavily on stereotypes, wherever those films are set. but directors tend to lose the plot completely when they're detecting the global self, suddenly the cellulose takes on a c p. attent shem manic ritual. t is served, and the lama call to prayer turns into the unofficial sound track. this next kick talk by stand up comedian content creator finley. christie captures

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