o jim l as in dog n g 0, manila, quick update on development and me and my police arrested several protest. it's participating an anti military flash mobs in the city of young gone chanting crowds through fled, lit torches, and carried banners as part of ongoing protests against factories. qu, demonstrators have been staging a flash mob before quickly dispersing to evade a violent to avoid a violent crack down on descent. according to human rights groups, at least 881 people have been killed by security forces since the takeover and more than 6000 people have been arrested. a quick look at the main stories this. now. a fire has hampered the search for survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed in the usa of florida on thursday, as hopes fade of finding anyone else alive. it has now also much that concerns will

1st raised about this building 3 years ago. no survivors have been found since the early hours of friday morning and so far any 4 people are confirmed dead. but with a 159 still on accounted for that figure is on my sunny likely to rise. a large section of the tower in the beach front community of south side came down early on thursday morning, or people were sleep. newly released report shows an engineer found evidence of major structural damage in 2018. we're facing very incredible difficulties with this fire. the fire has been going on for a while. it's a very deep fire. it's extremely difficult to locate the source of the fire. and so they've been working around the clock. these fire rescue teams, these brave men and women under, under the rubble to fix this problem so they can get on. but it is a hampering our search efforts are in are all the headlines this how us

pharmaceutical company, johnson and johnson says it will stop selling it's opioid painkillers across the united states. this is part of a $230000000.00 settlement made with the state of new york. the attorney general leticia james said the companies painkillers have contributed to a serious opioid epidemic. the highly contagious delta vary and 1st detected in india is driving up covert cases in countries around the world. indonesia registered a record 21000 cases on saturday, while russia reported 619 clover death, its highest figure. this year also pushed australia's biggest city sidney to order a 2 week lockdown. and britons, our secretary mat hancock has resigned a day after being caught breaking social distance and rules. he admitted to breaching the guidelines after a picture of him kissing and hugging a colleague was published by a newspaper the images reportedly taken on may 6. when household mixing was still banned in the u. k. listening post is coming up next.

ah, ah ah. ah. break him right? one friday's presidential elections by land on want to be should be even better for job. 19 as a stage manager process, virtually guaranteed when hello richard gilbert, you're at the listening post where we dig into the coverage and look at how news is reported. here are the media stories we're examining this week. iran, new president elect is heading into the job, carrying some baggage from the past that neither he nor the country state friendly

news outlets care to talk about. the castro era is over in cuba. the countries new leaders are being challenged on the issue of freedom of expression. in egypt, 2 more women are jailed over their tick tock, videos. the targeting a female social media influencers continues and the inside story on life after lockdown. wow. wish i could for those of us who just aren't ready for a return to the outside world. iran has a new president coming into office after an election that had all the trappings of the democratic process campaign rallies, televised debates, minus the free and fair part. ebara him racy victory was never in doubt. it was guaranteed after the government band any candidate with a chance of beating him from running. that's why voter turnout with so low adding to races legitimacy issues are persistent questions about his role in the math execution of political prisoners in the 1900 eighty's involvement that he denies

and is rarely publicly questioned about since discussing the repression of the eighty's is a no go zone for iranian journalists. rice sees when, however tainted, represents a victory for the old guard and his mentor, the supreme leader, ayatollah hominy, and raised his background as a judge, his past record on cases pertaining to the internet, and what iran ins are allowed to do online. do not bode well for the future of freedom of expression. our starting point this week is terrible. on the final day of the iranian election campaigns, there was the supreme leader, ayatollah hominy on national television, urging citizens to vote. not for him, harmony, his name was not on the bout. his is a job for life. he was talking about the presidential election. what was that? you put it on the side and they should be better than that. i mean,

he failed to convince because iranians knew better they had watched as opposition candidates, one after another, were disqualified from running by government official. effectively clearing the path to the president's office for harmonies choice, every game racing in the end voter turn out was drastically low around 48 percent. take the spoiled ballots out of it and it was more like 41 percent. it turns out that the voters in the islamic republic do not like it when election outcomes are pre, or there is an incredible mobile phone recording of a gentleman in iran and it was amazing. we just we most can even put on it. and i think that kind of only, oh, you need to know, i think it's, it's a great kind of motif how the election to actually run in their own democracy. but

it's not, it's not perfect. i think we should try to be less sensitive about the low turn out the run because this happens up just in the wrong. there are some reform is support is that didn't see the candidates run for presidency. that's probably the they show up to vote everything that we set up from the selection of the candidates, but could be voted on you who selection of raise the basically an uncontested front runner has given the feeling. but this is a very much a pre ord gained plan to them. many are interpreting as re e, b, perhaps to harmony in since 2019 every him right. you see has been in charge of iran judiciary. he rose through the legal ranks in the 1980, the early years of the as womic republic when it was also an or with iraq. it was a time of suspicion and violence when political opponents disappear,

executed in their 1000. this week, amnesty international was among the human rights organizations calling for runs next president to be investigated for crimes against humanity for his involvement in what some iranians call the bloody deco. 1980, very hiring times you could be going to jail for owning to vcr were wearing a t shirt for using foreign wars that are suspect political often and very cute it in large numbers. i said in supreme leader, i took the whole maney, gave an order that basic said kill as many political prisoners as you can as quickly as you can. now, for people are on a disc panel that decided to execute the abraham racy was one of the bloody decade. the very histories, i mean, contemporary history is considered to be a public secret. on the 1980 was the inception period of the atlantic

republic. this is the time where they were building a narrative of credibility was anticipating. and this branding effort depends on the 1980 s being told in a certain way. but i was a kid you could already talk about in the years since, because of a spread of blogs and internet and a lot of victims coming out of iran and being able to speak about it publicly. there is more information about it and more people know it took iranians almost 30 years before some of the truth came out. then we can get a long walk in 2016, an audiotape recorded in 1988. was broadcast by radios. i'm a ne, a person language station base in amsterdam, on it, one of the leaders of the revolution, ayatollah hall, say, now the montes area confronts, right? you see over the part he played in the max execution love that all the

shows and you know, you got to call to talk in the monastery later resigned, but the tape was released by his son who was then prosecuted under abraham races. watch the race. he has at times, either denied his role in the execution or argued that they were justified under a religious ruling issued by former supreme leader, ayatollah hall. meaning, the president elect clearly wants that story left behind. and can usually count on the iranian media to co. but 2 days after the election, racy was questioned on his pass at a news conference attended by the international meet on the day you elected, i'm just international says you should be investigated for crimes against humanity . do you think that these issues will be difficult for you when you interact with

will be the right response to that question? was very telling her mom in the want to commend that, even with the detriment yet. and john go down. hum water that to the fall as a shadow in sunday, he actually tried to walk and during that event, as a commendable because he was protecting the islamic republic of iran. and this is a narrative, read it around the 1980 massacres, which was they were getting rid of karen. so it is a very frightening prospect. the that he would kind of whitewash these crimes against humanity in that way. back. can you to speak with someone like him at the helm? there are going to be very dark forms of repression in iran. ah, the real power in k, iran lies not in the presidents. but with the supreme leave, i, toler, harmony,

and the clarity surrounding the president's role includes representing iran in its dealings with foreign governments, including those currently imposing sanctions on the country over its nuclear program. exceeds half sunroof connie in the drive through honey, was considered a modern but his 8 years in office did nothing for news organizations and their freed conservative factions, loyal to iran, leadership control, the majority of influential media outlets from state television to key, new pages. there's always been space for reform, it's newspaper, challenging authority, but only up to editors from some of those papers met with the prior to the election . no one has reported what was said, but their critical coverage of the candidate suddenly softened thereafter on the racy my own prediction is that we won't see further restrictions on the press. iran is already one of the last 10 in most global index. the hotter to really go lower

than this, but i mean, he's looking for a fight. obviously, he knows he's been elected to be a circumstance. and the economy is key here because right now the economic deprivation in iran mean that's very few people are interested in political defense as much as just trying to make ends meet. i have one state that on media outlets for the past 20 years or so, the government doesn't have any kind of control over the media. and the one, the only thing that the, the government can control is daily newspapers in both english and persian. but that is really the saw how big the current government paid to control the media. i don't think that the survey is going to do that right. given the fact that he was just in the position of head of judiciary 2019 to present. he has also been responsible and had contributed to the deterioration of internet freedom. we

also saw that his, you, this year you signed off on an order to spencer. we were different for and messenger the banding of signal the encrypted messenger. for example, there has been a policy to implement here, system of access towards the internet, different kinds of access, depending on your profession. and it's very much expected that underwriting ministry, information, communication, and technology. this policy is very much, they're expected to be late. me a president who has already shown attention for curtailing expression on line a new face of the old guard, part of whose past remains journalistically awful and it's a hard liner who all the signs and photo suggest is on his way to being the next supreme leader the election results in iran was never in doubt. the prospect and

future of free speech india, swamp republic. very much in, in the egypt key, young women with sizeable followings on instagram and tick tock have been convicted of human trafficking. you know, actually, robbie's here with the details mean these are serious charges, considering these women have been posting short videos online. they are indeed richard hunting. hassan, who is 20 years old and has more than 900000 followers on, picked up, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. a co defendant mother of them who is 23 and has more than a 1000000 followers, has been sentenced to 6 years. both women have been accused of quote, using girls and acts contrary to the principles and values of egyptian society with the aim of gaining material benefits, which according to the authorities, concert human trafficking. this is not the 1st time the state has come after these 2 women, her son who is

a student at the university of keitel with 1st arrested last year for violating family values. after she posted a video telling her female followers that they could use like another video content creation platform and make money. the authority said that she was encouraging women to sell sex online. mobile, the other was arrested for the same offense, a month later after she paused to reduce the price of dancing and lips, thinking to popular music. quote, the women was sentenced to jail time and find, but their convictions were overturned and they were released earlier this year. but the authorities were clearly not done with them. there's a larger pattern at play here objections, women being arrested for what they're posting online. yes, ever since 2018, when a new cyber crime law was passed, numerous women have been arrested on vague charges of violating public morals. he just, prosecutor general, justifies it by saying force of evil would have using the new virtual electronic space. we're talking about influencers. what about journalists and the policing of

their social media activities in egypt? this still under the gun just 2 months ago to freelance journalists, philip maggie and her husband, homicide, was released after 17 months in pre trial detention for allegedly disseminating false news and misusing their social media accounts. pre trial the tension in egypt . that can mean anything. journalists have spent years in jail and never even got to trial. absolutely, as we had just eaten, only 2. well. actually, 2 months ago when ro, castro gave up the leadership of cuba, the communist party had marked the 1st time and more than 6 decades. the country has not had a castro in charge. his successor miguel diaz can now inherited some familiar challenges, struggling economy sanctions in post by the united states. as well as a pandemic. he's also dealing with a growing demand for greater freedom of expression in cuba. political demonstrations are rare, yet towards the end of the castro era as access to the internet improved that began

to change. the protesters are diverse. they range from artists and other intellectuals who support the revolution to more radical activists like the santa c dro movement. it's demanding fundamental changes and its methods from hunger strikes to viral videos are attracting the attention of authorities who have traditionally treated descent. with a heavy hand, the listening post daniel touring now on the struggle over freedom of expression in post castro cuba in the twilight of the castro era and an unusual message spreading through cube as online community. a full throated defiance of the communist party. its february and a group of rapid dissidence have released the protest. someone youtube pack, the i v dot or homeland and life takes aim at fidel castro's revolutionary slow

good homeland or death. the with who's in the 1000000. the current success court, the government of god. i human later police descended on have an impoverished son, his future neighborhood to arrest one of the rapids. michael a sort of feel. but when they tried to take him into custody, they got another surprise. all hope up on the police were going to arrest him and the neighbourhood came out in his defense michel managed to break behind and raise his fist in the air,

calling up with dying. and it was an amazing event because it was the creation of a new symbol. i put all the same amount of checkup like michael, soba is part of the sunny sea drug movement, a collective of artists, demanding greater freedom of expression. the group got. it starts in 2018 after the government passed a law decree 349. that prohibits artists from working either in public or private without obtaining permission from the ministry of culture. for mama was when we set up our group as a way of protecting culture from the tax and to address artists rights and human rights. rachel had to go ahead. rachel, we founded a space that would allow us to connect with activism and politics. you know media, he also since 2018, we've seen the introduction of several new laws that could tale freedom of expression when i le penalties for people that dissent include arrest,

house arrest. you can also have your internet cut. these have become standard police measures. there's been a hardening of the states repression, and we're now seeing a struggle between the forces of gemini and those of autonomy. a lot on the sanity, dro artists and not be only cubans calling for more freedom of speech. last november, hundreds came together and protest outside the ministry of culture. in most countries that would barely qualify as a new story. but this is cuba. what seems to fidel castro lead revolution in 1959. the island has been ruled as a one party state with few political or cultural freedoms. 5 years before coming to power, castro saw the role that the u. s. and a c i backed radio station, played in over throwing the democratically elected left with government. what

amanda? some are problem instead of off the cube is revolution. castro became the latest target of washington's anti communist crusade. and having seen how the media could be weaponized, he took no chances on freedom of expression. castro nationalized all privately own news outlets. and over the following decades, thousands of cubans were jailed the descent with continued us aggression providing the pretext i had the daughter, our gas room things have loosened up a little since 2011. when raoul castro succeeded his brother to doubt the government is more receptive to pressure than below. all the people and faced with the protest is outside his window last november, the deputy minister of coach f and under rocca invited them in to discuss that concerns. then throwing a cossack ramos,

if our among the things we agreed was to open up a channel of communication between the so called independent art spaces, an official cultural institutions. we also agreed not to harass independent art bases and to continue holding meetings with artists. we have to keep up the spirit of dialogue and maintain this relationship. we are more montana and compact plumley important and this was really significant. seen all those artists protesting outside really shook the culture ministry to its core. the protesters ended up splitting into 2 groups. one group has been in dialogue with the ministry about potential reform. then there's a more overtly political group which includes the sanhedrin artist, some of whom have a political agenda involving regime change. i'll say, i mean winning muscle by, by cool bang valley bank. the government has accused santa syndrome in bits of receiving support from the u. s,

which spends around $20000000.00 a year on so called democracy promotion efforts seen by havana as a push for regime change, joke organ, when know me or not. but when you're bein or not, but i don't think demonstrating peacefully to express an opinion if the same thing is receiving logistical support from the u. s. embassy or verbal support from us institutions. those people who are acting against the constitutional order of cuba, with us backing deserve to be prosecuted in the same way as if it was an attack with a terrorist or otherwise, against our independence. not assuming what's in the issue of i know louis manuel or gunter since last october, the sanity drug movements leader us manuel a terror. i'll come to run as i've been in jail, under house arrest, or confined to a hospital and security forces have disrupted several attempted hunger strikes the rules one. then there's the other weapon in the government is also state media out

. i don't see also, can you show not annoying about well, but i think they are, you know, we have but i am off. if you could any don't lovely, she'll discredit you on tv. and there is no way of refuting any of the accusations we call it public. a fascination may be beheadings and firing squads happen in other countries. but here, the subject you to treatment and leave you like a dead man walking home and white, but not at all. you can not express yourself if you do. try to get to you through your family and break down your relationship to help see only to winkler, family out in the thing is that it isn't just the cuban government telling you that all canter gets his orders from abroad. it's the actual recording of a conversation between our camera and somebody who's receiving us money. it can

be and no one has tried to deny these allegations. no one has stepped up to say, this is false, protest movement. but i think i've seen the state media, like, for instance, i've seen groman newspapers say that groups protesting violence against women, a financed by the cia, and musson raised him in theater, but to lie. so why should i believe any of the other things they say? cubans now have other sources of information and fingertips. the internet arrived on the island in 2013, but the biggest change came 5 years later, with 3 g smartphones. as a result, alternative news website getting more clear. while social media platforms provide an outlet for descent, it was make of the canal ro, castro's former deputy,

and now he's successful, who ever saw the launching of mobile internet. now the limits on freedom of expression in cuba, a being tested like never before, one to be in a sex history and once people have access to the internet, censorship becomes utah. there was a system in place on a very similar to the one in soviet union and they are trying to keep it going to keep the media under control. and if the internet is something that can be controlled, they still haven't understood that their monopoly is over, can one point and finally, in the immortal words of the clash, should i stay or should i go out? that is, having been locked down for so long, many of us have grown a little too comfortable on our own. plus, let's face it. our communication and social skills. have taken a serious hit. we've been wearing sweatpants track, suit, bottoms, and leggings for so long. the genes suddenly feel like formal wear and the thought

of returning to the office trading zoom calls for face time. that's actual face. time feels like too much too soon. these next 2 videos buy content creators, haley morris, and laura wally capture the personal turmoil. a lot of people are going through over the prospect of life post locked down with the next time here at the listening cost. why you just like going out? sorry. well, i said we're going out. it's probably not very many. oh good. so we all saying he this, we don't doing this, we are definitely going. how do we go it to me all for a long time, for most people people. so many of these we, we do live on too much. no, it isn't too. ringback soon i'm sorry, but we're going out to lunch saying, hey, don't, we'll leave it going, but don't blame me when we brought things to talk about. exactly you. i'm going to blame office israel. no hurry. task not to be dramatic. i will quit on my

well, i could, you know, i haven't been vaccinated. i don't have any office closed, because i don't have the ability to control my visual expression. kim, what are your thoughts? kim? no, thank you. i lose energy to every part of our universe or small to continue the change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity,

we can make it work for you and your business. the a diverse range of stories from across from the perspective of our networks, germany on al jazeera. ah hello, i'm sorry, i'm democracy in london. i'll main story this out. a fire is hampered to search for survivors in the rubble of a building that collapse in the us state of florida on thursday. as hope start to fade is anyone else being found alive. now emerge that concerns were 1st raised about the structure of the building years ago. well, no survivors have been found since the early hours of friday morning. and so far, only 4 people are confirmed dead. but with 159 people still unaccounted for. figure

is certain to rise significance.