flex countries in the region, he'll have to explain to the people what he can and can't do. nearly a month after, please look as you want the election by more than 40000 votes. electoral officials are still investigating for negations raced by his rival cake of modern. there may not be a new leader officially that castillo supporters say they are already thinking about the future. the deanna son just also see that lima be to ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, the u. n, is warning if you government in rebels and she writes respect the fees, fire, or risk spiraling further into crisis. it says 4 100000 people are suffering famine while another 1800000 face starvation. the war began 8 months ago and has displaced . millions of morgan has spoken to some to grind refugees who fled across the

border into 2 dont get out of state while a lot of them are speaking of the horrors that they have left behind and cross the border, interested and seeking safety and refuge. many of them are also telling stories of how they're witness. i'm heard malicious. and if you've been farmers, they've accused those 2 sides of burning farm. they say that some crops were ready for harvest. and that if you open federal troops as well as her militias burned those crops to make sure that many to grand do not get any food to eat. they say that they believe that this is a targeted effort to make sure that they are solved into submission. so many people who we spoke to, especially pharmacy, that they think that this is a form of ethnic targeting. they say that if there were any other mississippi, if there were any other solicitor, maybe their farms would have been sped. at least 20 people are missing in japan. after a landslide near tokyo homes have been swept away in the central city of atomic, just south west of the capital. severe torrential rain has been falling for several

days. authorities have worn people in some areas to leaves. and denisia is rolling out more. corona virus restriction to cross jakarta, java and valley is the number of daily infections and deaths reach a record high. neighboring malaysia has also taken measures after a surge in cases. at least 52 taliban fighters have been killed in air strikes by the afghan government, the ministry of defense as a strikes target a taliban forces, and 3 districts of helman province. a senior commander was among the dead. the bodies of 2 more people have been found in the rubble of the apartment block that partially collapsed in florida. last week. it brings the number of dead to 22. italy of the missing has been revised down to 126 after some people turned up safe . but there are fears. hurricane also, which is heading towards florida could hamper recovery efforts. those are the headlines on al jazeera. the listening post is coming up. thanks. bye bye. the latest news,

as it breaks the level of intimidation over the media over the last couple of days has been met. the most journalists have been beaten with detailed coverage. the ongoing covered 19 health emergency means the border remains close, disrupting the traditional us asylum process. from around the world, miami dade county officials will be inspecting it and other older high rise buildings, hoping to avoid another catastrophe on this thinking. sands of miami beach, the hello and richard gets burt and you're watching a special edition of the listening post. this week. we are focusing on hong kong, the city, and it's transformation. july 1st marked 24 years since the united kingdom handed. it's commonly back to china with that hand over came a set of promises. beijing would stay out of hong kong, internal affairs keep its hands off its freedoms,

including its free press. but for many hong commerce, the question was not if, but when china's communist party leaders would break that promise. and the answer appears to be. now, over the past 2 years, bay gene has intensified the stamping out of political descent in hong kong through new laws drawn up in the name of security, the jailing of critics and the reigning in of the news media. in the 2nd half of this program, we speak to 3 hong congress whose work and lives have been severely affected by the cities, loss of autonomy. but 1st joanna, who's on how hong kong got here, from a city of liberty's to one that's under a song the. 2 in the always enjoyed the most open, liberal press in the region. well, what we're seeing over the last year or 2 has been more like a desk by

a 1000 cuts on young while you got hydro targeting all organ. why? joy target would love to we all know even the most optimistic gender this find it difficult to have reason for optimism about journalists may have to pay a price for the editors to seek the truth. come a place on known for its openness and civil liberties. now a place of political persecution and a corrected free speech. a city that in the last few years alone seem more than 10000 protesters arrested, and dozens of dissidence jail. the result of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making since july, the 1st 1997 cents

. today, the united kingdom, which had ruled income for more than 150 years, returned its colony to china, ending hong kong back to china was weird. construct you had this kind of free open capital as city is enclave. and so you're handing it back to a country that's controlled by authoritarian communist party. and the way that the 2 sides, the british in the chinese side were able to make it work as they came up with this amazing formula and said, we'll have one country. but it will be 2 systems. i got by the way, co op or something, but in some case a hunger and we could have gone along. so i got, hey, when choice and it say, hey, monique, somebody and john l d p and i haven't gone home. all of them case, i've got to use so much money. so you, while you recall, that guy we met from china did not become like hong kong. if anything in the 24

year since to hand over. it's hong kong that's become more like mainland china. under british rule, the city didn't have a democracy, but it did have robust civil liberties are well functioning, justice system. and one of the free is media environments in the region. the one country to systems agreement was supposed to safeguard this, at least until 2047. and in the initial years after the handover, beijing held up its end of the bargain. that was at least partly because china was unwilling to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. as a british colony, i'm calling it grown into a global financial hub and it's thriving port, air links and axes to for an investment enabled china to generate about 20 percent of its g d p to the city. it made economic sense for beijing to be relatively hands off. however, as china grew into an economic superpower in the early 2000 pages started to

rethink its hong kong strategy. the beginning, perhaps from 20 all 3, when there's mark change or tactic of a change was towards hong kong. more control, more innovations and more presence in the way we've gotten to media not in meal to those strange of strategy. so beginning from that we've seen media on dumble direct and indirect pressure because we got that pilot. see, we have to hung on stop fun and i will enjoy all holmes and people in current we want. they told a topic on what you go home again, and i tell my certainly with my mike in the or the me being china's tougher approach to hong kong was solidified in 2012. when cj in ping was

appointed general secretary of the communist party in 2014 c, radically changed the election process for the cities. my senior, political representative, the chief executive jungle you'd, you figured out what if i bought your gun term that sure, sure, sure. you shut down the cushion, enable. sure, sure, don't go. and they don't change. infuriated hong kong, right? and for $79.00 days mass protests caught the umbrella movement, paralyzed the city. beijing responded by ratcheting up its correct down on the since morning a 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least 127 were convicted. china also intensified to suit on hong kong media since 2014, at least 5 major mainstream media outlets got new probation owners,

including hong kong, dominant broadcaster t v b. and it's leading english newspaper, the south china morning post for those outlet of minutes to hold out against the pressure vanishing, wielded its considerable commercial muscle boycotting advertisements and pro democracy tabloids like apple daily. regardless, holden cho, the vice chairman of the largest probation party in hong kong government, denies any crack down on the cities, media, freedoms, iving. it's time for me to build these. i'm recruit and unwarranted accusation. the media enjoy all the freedom of brass. nothing less than before. is all vibrant and very diverse people with me or hong kong by saying, wow, all the past few years is seems that there are some sort of crack down on the sand

and stuff like that. of course they smearing i think those confluence of events here that made this crack down kind of inevitable here in hong kong. she didn't think came into power with a very hard line attitude. and then you have people here start pushing for more democracy that really got to ship them up in beijing. and they realized that hong kong suddenly was a problem. and then along comes the 2019 protests and that's where i think china lost its patients. those 2019 protests were the biggest in hong kong history. more than 2000000 people about a quarter of the population took to the streets risking arrest for 10 consecutive months. the police tried hard to quell the protests. at times, withdrew to force the staging seized on the year long unrest to introduce legislation. a strict new national security law designed to curb dissent

in hong kong once and fully implemented in june 2020 the law outlaw, succession subversion, and collusion with foreign forces. eagerly to find offences that carried maximum sentences of life imprisonment. the new law has proven effective at silence and critics. so for $54.00 people have been charged including jimmy ly, the owner of the apple daily newspaper. the paper has been repeatedly targeted by the authorities. the final stroke came on june 17th when its officers were raided. the editor in chief was arrested, and the company's assets are frozen. within a week of that rate, apple daily published its last and final edition. all right, so they told me multi all got you boy call to me

a lot for money thing. how can i call you when we want a thing? and then come via for me that you believe thomas? i'm going to have more. fetal game will be made. you both made, both eager. go ahead, mom, double click on the account number, they feel her casey john, i'll like why i think as long as you are bader law, you don't coco against national security. i see nothing that they need to feel very let me take an example. apple daily is not only a pap lloyd, but it's also a prop, again, the done against the central government. so if you are running a media with an agenda to sort of and thing during our countries national security, there's something wrong, isn't it? the social altogether change or the top odl on the we're see how old or her to be at your conference. you can leave his lease on her phone,

you want to go home, see him, how legal haunts id or something you don't see, or they can hold all on paper. and you're saying i'm, she was such all you know, your thought on godaddy. com. yeah, hold on the word i'm trying to get on. the julie speak from experience as a freelance producer for hong kong public broadcaster radio television, hong kong or r t h k. she's become a target for her reporting. on footage last year, she was arrested for her investigation into white police didn't intervene in a violent move attack on pro democracy protest. her new 2019. she was attacked by a group of men. we reckon 6, she looked through publicly available vehicle registration databases to track down the attacker, the practice that the prosecution seized on alleging that by failing to declare

that her search was returned the listing purposes. joy knowingly made a false statement. she was to find nearly 800 us dollars and co bogus l i l d e get autopay. she lives on top top. we don't get yelled in either high things about the war and i might see her hotel on the hiking and they all called a hard edge on both of them and they just started her height and gay colgate, someone's yelled, it's no longer just a shame that coming for hong kong media, the city chief executive carry land and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp. governments are cracking down to take bow choice employer, rti hage. k, the public broadcaster that used to have a reputation for its critical journalism. i was following it, coverage of the 2019 protest including police violence. the hong kong government

conducted a far reaching review of r t h. case management, and editorial direction. it has since replaced his director with a probation bureaucrats and ext various of its programs. all these other gall that i love to be seen. yeah. with a comes on he said type things will up. sure. high things lawyer who holmes. i see her home. you know the thing. yeah. we got a high ho full moving full height height on jack on the head. a simple to be on ball 2nd. go for we go to me on the scenes. darius back in 2019 o. d h k. have told you some program reporting for suits being very much bias. the government, if they see something wrong done by all j h k o they, they are simply crossing the red line going against the charge of they must, that being is their responsibility to regulate and make sure that our

t h k will be back on the right track ah, going by, it's new as political show, a program hosted by the chief executive herself. so there is little doubt as to which direction r t h k is headed in but even with so much of hong kong media and a stranglehold and the political opposition silenced beijing morrison done. in march this year, the communist party rewrote the rules of hong kong electoral system. ensuring only patriots can now run for government. i could well prove the final nail in the coffin of the one country to systems agreement. trial what i'm and i'm going to take one last thing not to see how you hung on gums or hey leo, and coughing cycle goal. one thing long come so you gotta get see how you go by her

. so she'll come back to holidays. so you hire, go say whole megan call, they dont awesome and they phone height would be half full function. oh, okay. would see some ongoing job. 60 whites and over the phone have to have a like, so long capital with joe, you're report documents the way china's crack down on hong kong effects journalism there. but the impact these changes have on freedom of expression. they go way beyond news organizations will absolutely take, for example, hong kong publishing industry. and the chinese government owns nearly as 30 publishing houses in the city. and it also controls the majority of the booksellers . there. they only print and sell books that so the official line, they've also made changes to school books, which now teach that at hong kong legislature and this year,

every ultimately answer to beijing. then there's of course, the new national security law, which could be used to target anyone that expresses undesirable views. for example, filmmakers in june this year, the hong kong government announced that it was going to block the distribution of any movie that is deemed to undermine national security. and they're also going to vet art exhibitions and galleries and to really cement their control over hong kong narrative. china is reportedly setting up what they call propaganda departments in the city tasked with controlling media organizations, but also public opinion. so we'll keep an eye on these attempts to control what people read, right? say what they teach. how are citizens, people who have opinions dealing with that? are they going silent? finance. 3 on congress. that exact question. and none of them turn list into the national sense, but all people who fallen victim to these new restrictions on freedom of speech,

the 1st is li young. he is the founder of the june 4th museum, which is an exhibition in hong kong, which is dedicated entirely to telling the truth about the $19809.00 chinaman squire massacre a topic that is completely off limits in china. or lee has become a target for his work. just weeks after we interviewed him, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison for what the authorities call organizing an authorized protest. then there is a one cake, one better known under his pen name, lindsey he is a long time political cartoonist who has been forced to navigate these new edits, royal red lines in his drawings. and then also i also spoke to nathan law, a former protest leader and democracy activist who was forced to flee hong kong going tax out in london because the authorities back home were going out of their way to silence in little i thought to the idea of

this for museum, during the 20th anniversary of the 10 square mascot. because in china, everyone is being told a lie about $9089.00 is a complete black out of $89.00 history. so we want the truth to come out. the april 15th 1989. the previous general secretary of the congress body, we all die and he was a very popular reform. and so i problem a lot of food in my to go and more in depth. and then the morning begins to turn into the mind for anti corruption legally. for democracy and soon began to

come out on law to occupy the way a button on the audio regina condemn demonstrates the student as an to revolutionary i. and then they decided standing on me and frank donald to today no official rec, calling them off. how many people are dying in 9089 square? no one knows me and the congress body is, of course, trying to suppress all information about what happened. so the idea was since there, so many chinese people coming to hong kong, it would be very, very important to have a physical museum. but the future for the museum

is pipe, uncertain, and reach. because the, the congress party use in the nation is below they are using it in the very opposite way. the red line can always ship and they can always strangle sol before and the nation signal was enacted. we started the process of trying to plan for i'm use the 1st we have the july after think that we have and so that you know, that i'll be in the way. if anything happened to this museum in a way, what happened in 89 photo after thing, after 42 years is the same regime and they won't tolerate descent and democracy. and so this is very much rather than today because the fight is due on

me has been trying for content for almost 40 years trying for such a long time. i could see what has been life a phone call before hand over and afterwards. so i think, to some extent, my, my cartoon has recorded the history of transition. ah, this one is drawn and nearly 40 years ago. but it transition about the hong kong, moving back to china actually is just like from one case going back to the other case is a colony of china and from colony, a few came back. cartoon has always been very powerful that been given the chinese government knows that to some extent, quite afraid of. it was quite a little bit of lucky for me. i'm currently working from daddy and danny. i think

this is the only 2 newspaper that allowed me to throw a cartoon. but there are a lot of father young cotton where it's not a job and they were quite afraid of the new national security law. they don't want to draw the national flag or the hong kong stack and they won't play with the national anthem. they used to make fun of seeing things so right right now they are afraid of doing as turn a cotton. they're right. lines everywhere. we won't know where the red line moved on one side from rock direction. and it's actually the casing right now in hong kong. so it's important for us to, to keep on trying to and to one day this is a b naive to think that they're, they're not going to do something i'm asked. but to me as

a constant is of cause we have to use this opportunity to, to, to continue to express ourselves. instead of laying down our pan and surrender in 2020 june. i'm sorry to leave the hong kong. now it's definitely worried about my personal safety. i had been left at one of the largest national enemy by the state media for very long time with when you go, i couldn't have imagined i'll be here to doing interviewing the okay to be wanted under the national security law and to become an ex, out activist, new if you know the difference, she's going to vancouver, you the funds all be we've our funds, if you're around we can do from the gentile. we 25 people. so it be

hope to both country young on the far way. be good if you question keep and runs your way by you the junk bail bond that far. and in hong kong you just can't talk genuinely about your false choice, the beijing government, what the status phone call of human rights activists. not only themselves being intimidated. cultured out their loved ones, including the white tutor and not being to maintain the valence or even also child . so for me, when i realized that i would be leaving hong kong issue, a complex statement about differing my time with my families. so i think i did a very difficult choice, but that choice was for the safety and well being of my family of all allow me to

say that mr. nathan lau in front of you is most appro democracy activist is a fugitive from the law of hong kong that beijing government has always been trying to mammy troublemaker fall. and in fact, or anything that they could hundreds. my reputation of course targeting you individually. but they are also trying to describe the movement news, even in london, i still do read the caution about my safety. we all understand how extensive china reach could be thought being living. it's chris live and try to be protecting myself beneficial phone calls like the shop. my fisher is definitely, but it won't have a future for me as an episode, i'm titled to lose hope. my duties too, and how people use campaigns. all of our fellows not to give up

after almost 25 years of shipping and then hacking away at hong kong freedoms and autonomy. beijing has left their hands off. approach behind the pandemic proved a useful pretext to clear demonstrators from the streets. the new national security law has made it much harder for them to return. but the fight for hong kong is not over as lead truck. yeah, from the june 4th museum, put it to the court before getting locked up to live in the truth. that's the path of democracy i choose. you've been watching a special edition of our program on hong kong. how it's changed, and where it's go. with the next time, here at the listing, the something was going to change. anything really changed. this is systemic violent

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