really have to live with no profile. the security has been increased on the long and porous border, but it remains relatively easy to cross thailand has kept a tight control on its borders since the military coup. and man, not only because it's concerned about a flood of refugees coming across, but also because of fears cove 19 could come with them. but the career of ours is unlikely to be the only reason these soldiers trying to sniff out dissident journalists have slipped across into thailand. tony ching al jazeera, on the time in my border. ah, that's going to recap of your headlines here now to sarah thailand is timing restrictions in bangkok and other provinces to tackle it with outbreak of the vars . the new measures begin on monday. the 30 days construction science will be shot.

an indoor dining and gathering of more than 20 people, band health officials blame the increase in infections on a lack of compliance among smiles and workers. the thumb, experts blame a slow vaccination, dr. nukes. the 1900 variance thousands of people scrambling to leave the bangladesh, the capital duck before tough, new measures come into force from day follows the surge in cases. tundra chandry has the latest from deca. now on friday, the government and now that you'll be locked down and it will be in force, that's when the people got signing and thousands of people are leaving the capital city. the buses were restrict, that's on the trains are shut down, so they're going by any means of transport. some people are actually walking because from day july, 20 june, sorry, july 1. there will be a complete shut down and it will be enforced by law enforcement agency, including the military will be applied so people are panic. they want to be with their family. they want to be in their home to stay god in the rural villages that

you guys knew. health secretary says, bringing an end to the pandemic is his most immediate priority. such a java, the form of finance minister replaced month hancock who's resignation was forced by scandal. shake up, puts more pressure on a government that's been heavily criticized, but certainly handling of the pounds. i make the lead as of jordan on egypt, in the iraqi capital, baghdad for summit with the prime minister. it's expected to address economic cooperation, security, encountering around influence in the region. fighting between you have any government forces and who the rebels has left dozens of people dead in the gap which mara region this week. the areas the internationally recognized governments laugh northern stronghold. but as the headline news continues here, now does air on the left listing, post china will mazda 100 anniversary of the

founding of the communist party with president segan king leading celebration. but it comes at a time when relation to the west on the increasing strain. energy 7 countries looking to countless china is growing engine around the world. follow all the detailed analysis on algebra. abraham rice, one fridays presidential elections on my land. i want to be sure that you got what they don't, but i'm just trying to verify some of the 19th stage manager process virtually guaranteed when hello richard gisburne. you are 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? the wrong 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 female social media influences continues and the inside story on life after lockdown. wow. wish i could for those of us who just aren't ready for 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 ratio 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 was 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 harmony, 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 ballard. his is a job for life. he was talking about the presidential election. what was the site and they should be better than that. he failed to convince because iranians

knew better they had watched as opposition candidates, one after another, were disqualified from running by government. officials. effectively clearing the path to the president's office for harmonies choice, every game racing in the end voter turn out was drastically around 48 percent. 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 ordained. there is an incredible mobile phone recording of a gentleman in iran, and it was amazing that we just we most can even run into a 100. and i think that kind of only all you need to know. i think it's, it's a great kind of motif for how the elections 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 law, turn out the run because this happens not just in the wrong. there are some reform is support is that didn't see the candidates run for presidency. that's for the they show up to vote. everything that was set up from the selection of the candidates that could be voted on you who selection of rafia 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 being prepped 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 iran. 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 a vcr were wearing a t shirt for using foreign wars that are suspect political often and very good at in large numbers. i said in supreme, neither i to a whole maney gave an order that basically said you 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. 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 a time where they were building a narrative of credibility was anticipating. and this branding effort depends on the 1980 is being told in a certain way. but i was a kid you could really 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 and then a 1010 years long. 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 month is area confronts, right? you see, over the part he played in the max execution. love that all of them that shows you

know, you got to call to talk even monitors ary, 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 ledgers 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 cooperate. but 2 days after the election, racy was questioned on his pan, at a news conference attended by the international meet on the day you elected, i'm just international that you should be investigated for crimes against humanity . do you think that these issues will be difficult for you when you interact with will need to write these response to that question?

was very telling her mom in the want to commend that, even with the detriment and john go down. hum water that to the fall as a shadow in sunday, he actually tried to rule in, during that event as a commendable because he was doing we're protecting the islamic republic of iran, and this is the 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 told the 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. right succeeds, has sunroof connie in the drive through honey was considered a model, but he's 8 years in office did nothing for news organizations and their freed conservative factions, loyal to iran, leadership control the george of influential media outlets from state television to key, new page and there's always been space for reform, a newspaper, challenging authority, but only up to editors from some of those papers met with right, you see prior to the election, no one has reported what was said, but there, critical coverage of the candidate suddenly softened thereafter on the racy my own prediction is that we won't be further restrictions on the press. iran is already one of the last 10 in most global indic hotter to really go lower than this one is

looking for a fight. obviously, he knows who's been elected and made it to be a circumstance, says, and the economy is key here because right now the economic deprivation in iran mean that's very few people are, you know, 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 find out of control over the media. and the one, the only thing that the government can control is daily newspapers in both english and persian. but that is really if we saw how big the current government failed to control the media, i don't think that this 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 has contributed to the deterioration of internet freedom. we also saw that his, you, this year you signed off on an order to spencer,

a lieu of different foreign messengers, the banding of signal the encrypted messenger. for example, there has been a policy to implement and here's some of that towards the introduction, 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 that are expected to be late . me a president elect who has already shown attention for curtailing expression on line a new face of the old guard, part of whose past remains journalistically offline. 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 in the walmart 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 either 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 in act, contrary to the principles and values of egyptian society with the aim of gaining material benefits, which according to the authorities, constant 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 keidel 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 posted the views of herself dancing lips, thinking to popular music. quote, the women with sentence to jail time and find, but their conditions 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, addictions, 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. egypt, prosecutor general, justifies it by seeing forces 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 fi. lance 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 try. absolutely, as we had just eaten only too well. thanks. 2 months ago when raoul 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 imposed by the united states. as well as a pandemic. he's also dealing with a growing demands 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. it's the twilight of the castro era. and an unusual message is spreading through cube as online community, a full throated defiance of the communist party. the february and a group of rapid dissidence have released the protests on youtube park. the i v dot or homeland and life takes aim at fidel castro's revolutionary slogan, homeland,

or death. the board with using the 1000000 the correct success court, the government of god. i 2 months later, the police descended on her banner's impoverished son see joy, 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 of the police were going to arrest him and the neighbourhood came out in his defense michael managed to break the hunters and raise his fist in the air, the phone up with dying. it was an amazing event because it was the creation of

a new symbol. i put all the same amount re pacheco, like microsoft 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 the 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 these attacks and to address artists rights and human rights. rachel had to go. 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 tail freedom of expression. when i look at the 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 going out on the senate diedro artist and not the 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 point where it's not like it seems the 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 cia backed radio station played and overthrowing the democratically elected left . when government, what amanda? some are problem instead of going to 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 private, the news outlets. and over the following decades, thousands of cubans were jailed the descent with continued us aggression providing the pretext i had to see doctor, our doctor, rules. things have loosened up a little since 2011. when ro casters exceeded his brother to doubt the government is more receptive to pressure from below. and faced with the protesters outside his window last november, the deputy minister of coach a financial rock house invited them in to discuss that concerns. then thrown across echoed 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 arts basis and to continue holding meetings with artists. we have to keep up the spirit of dialogue and maintain this relationship with them with the mountain in contact. one way important of 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 said, i mean winning was by by cool, bang bang 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 will know me or not, but it's when you're bein or not. but i don't think demonstrating peacefully to express an opinion is 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 the independent seal. and what's the issue of i know louis manuel or gun since last october, the sanity drug movements leader us manuel or terror alcantara has either 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 sauce and all state media out. i

don't see, i thought, well, can you show not annoying about, well, what do you want to do on the weekend? but i am off. when you see you can any door lovely. she'll they discredit you on tv, and there is no way of refuting any of the accusations. we call it public. a fascination, maybe beheadings and firing squads happen in other countries. but here the subject to treatment leave you like a dead man walking home and i'm white, but i'm 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 her. she only winkle familiarity 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 candra and somebody who's receiving us money

now and no one has tried to deny these allegations. no one has stepped up to say, this is false moment, but i don't 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 must read him in theater. that's a lie. so why should i believe any of the other things they say? cubans now have other sources of information at their 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 websites are getting more clear. while social media platforms provide an outlet to descend. it was ms. diaz canal ro, castro's former deputy. and now he's successful. who are the saw the launching of

mobile internet? now the limits on freedom of expression in a being tested like never before, one to be in a sex history. and once people have access to the internet, censorship becomes futile. there is a system in place on a very similar to the one in soviet union. and they are trying to keep going to keep the media under control as if the internet is something that can be controlled . they still haven't understood that their monopoly is over 11 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 sweat pants, tracksuit, 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, listening cost. why you are not going out. sorry, well, i said we're going out. it's probably very much. oh good. so we all staying here. we're not doing this. we'll definitely going. how do we go it to me all for a long time, for most people, people so many it's about leg. yeah. we we do live on. it is too much. no, it isn't too soon. i'm sorry, but what i'm saying, i don't really. they don't blame me when we brought things to talk about exactly who i'm going to play office israel. no hurry. he'll task not to be dramatic. i will quit on on my way. 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. across the world, young activists and organizers around them are motivated and politically engaged. we were the one who had lights on what was going on. and the way that means to me to do the generation change is al jazeera is looking at the fresh ideas for the transformation of global politics. the day we do the work of making sure that our boys are heard coming soon on, al jazeera football or adults, and a pi india for sports. he lost the chance to play for his country. won a legal battle, paid the way for a generation of brazilian players. footballing legend the eric counts and

introduces one scene of penalized buyers club for his political beliefs. he took power into his own hands and blazed the trails of players, writes football rebels on al jazeera. ah, me, this is al jazeera. ah, hello can vanelle. this is a new law firm. coming up in the next 60 minutes. thousands of margaret workers, flea don't come ferrying job losses, bangladesh and all the asian countries type in coven 19 restrictions of the surgeon cases dozens killed in yemen. mar, province was being called the worth fighting. a week's.