brazil is a tough rival for sure, but if i can to get together, that can win and be champions. if you clear, well, we can read it to know that i'm very nervous and totally obsessed. i guess we'll win it to one, but it'll be a tough game. it's been a tough tournament played in difficult circumstances, but the football as enough, as it always does, goes on shore the road to 0. what osiris ah top stories are under 0, a statue of a u. s. confederate general at the center of violent clashes 4 years ago, has been removed from its pedestal, in the city of charlottesville, virginia, on lucas chit. as the robert e lee monument was lifted from the plant cruise, also removed a statue of fellow confederate general thomas stonewall jackson event passed off peacefully. but in 2017 protests over the removals led to fatal crashes.

today the statue comes down and we are one small step closer to a more perfect. yes. the object was only important because of the race of the man who sat upon the horse. his grade of honor was his whiteness. and the treason that he committed in the attempt to preserve the great american tradition of being able to enslaved rape, pillage and murder, our black people. the us has rejected haiti's appeal for troops to help secure the country out of the assassination of president jovan, and marie's on wednesday. haiti's senate has no need to fly back to serve as a new interim president until new elections, which is set for september. politicians also back to our halo, he to replace closures f as the prime minister police in bangladesh of arrested 8

people over a factory fire in which at least 52 people died. distraught relatives as to waiting for news after the fire, which broke out on thursday. more bodies could be trapped in the rubble of the juice factory just outside the capital deca witnesses. so the main exit was locked when the foster wanted. some workers jumped from windows to escape. the party of ethiopia prime minister abbey ned has won a landslide victory in last month selections. his prosperity party won 410 of 436 parliamentary seats, assuring him a 2nd term in office. the vote was overshadowed by an opposition boycott ethnic violence, and the conflict in the northern te grier region to grow was one of 3 regions where voting did not take place. the listening post looks at the role of media 10 years after the arab spring. that's going on next morning, off to that by for now. me

. ah, ah, the one of the things that really struck me, you could feel not just that people were fearless, but that there were joy and it was the way in which they brandished time. the ways in which they screamed political slogans that made you feel that these people had no constraint. people did not worry about what may happen to them tomorrow because what they felt they had at stake was much more important and much less scary than what they could lose if they did not walk on the street. to more about more than

one level. there have been so many times since 2011 when i've tried to describe to people and friends of what that feeling was like in the square. and there really are no words. i mean, you weren't allowed to say anything. i gave you a lot of not a whole lot in the street. so, you know, just suppose that when walking into the square in 2011 and having pictures of the bottom with the words leave go with people laughing pictures of his face with their shoes. this was the feeling and the square. those were the slogans you heard and it was the calculus. until now, it feels like a dream. i remember the 1st shot from the master from the people were jumping

which is people want to humiliated to have the chance or the hope for the free press. for some kind of freedom expression, that was a dream. and that's the unique moment, the moment of possibility, the moment of rapture, where the systems of authority, where hierarchy begins to fall apart, fame chance that started to basically snowball. go from tunisia to syria. continue to grow worth, you know, it stands in stark contrast to everything else that subsequently unfolded. but at least during those moments touch, what a glorious future for me. ah

ah, the wave of revolution that came to be known as the arab spring began a decade ago in december of 2000. it was a time in which anything arab mobilize in their millions in collective cause for democracy, justice, freedom of expression, government auto craft names like with bar adopting than ali, went with in the special edition of the listening post. we're taking a retrospective look at what happens. the subsequent crushing of democratic move the clamp downs on freedom of the press that remain in place that we've chosen to focus on the stories of 3 countries to nivia, where the movement got to start from egypt, where it appeared to reach and syria where it hit a brick wall, the arab springs,

the starting point came on december 17th, 2010 in the small central tennessee and city of city with the st vector named mohammed. was this fed up with local official corruption, unable to make a living. and it was one individual active protest that would cost blue as dizzy his life and ultimately set off shop ways that would travel from north africa to the radiate him to the, not the regime of president bananas, created a kind of political police and a whole network to get into people's heads so that no matter where you are, no matter who you are. we found the walls and we listen to all the thoughts, even families inside their own home. the not that i speak about been id and obviously people didn't know that to post them social networks or discuss what was

happening in the media did not dang, pretty side of the regime except to minority within them. and that completely changed. the feeling of fear was completely over 10, said birth control, but what was bubbling and internees yell court was and movement that until the uprising had been underground of bloggers of citizen journalists, of people who use the new emerging digital information fear to begin exchanging information to create networks once the uprising started into these yeah, that whole network came above the draft. once to media became this magnet for news, but images for stories about that could be a different tomorrow. then it emerged as a note in that big network. there's so many glorious moments that are, that have now become iconic. my. there was a short video of men and these are so walking up and down, gave

a st. tunisia shortly after the fall of ben highly and he's calling people in their homes on an empty street telling him there's nothing to be afraid of. you are now free. in his voices you empty avenue. that was just absolutely mesmerized. and as it travelled around the arab world, it, it ended up inspiring so many others to do the same. and one of the more remarkable things that happened in 2011 and certainly in the square was this sort of outburst of language and terminology. words like democracy,

freedom, justice, right? the protesters in the square frame, their demands and articulate to using a right framework. one huge moment was when one who is a very famous presenter, egyptian television interviewed waiting on him who had just been released from prison. and that into view which it felt like the entire 100000000 population of egypt watched with a real turning point once to the media because it was the most honest thing we'd ever seen and to because it just showed real pain activist who didn't realize what he had taken aback by what was happening and from what can be then i'm sure most of the work that you want the one with a lot of heads and there hadn't been really

a symbol of the egyptian uprising up until that moment. and suddenly way it took me egypt present. host nemo barrak was forced from power on february 11th for days later, the 1st demonstrations broke out in libya. another leader would fall there from morocco in the west to yemen. and buck rain in the east autocratic and arab leaders faced existential challenges, a varying degrees. some met their citizens, demands halfway. others, like serious bashar assad, confronted protectors with the government implemented a media blackout banning foreign journalists from entering arrest and local reporters who tried to get the story. the naturally

want on money like to the unrest in syria exploded. far from a capital graffiti written by a student on the school wall in the border city of data, a message for the president in new york turn. at the beginning of this year and uprising we've heard so many spoken saying allow me to gather which is your, your media is 9. there were this sense that you are with missing and they are being manipulated and presented in a completely opposite way on the state media. that encouraged many people who were students, who were christians, carpenters and different kinds of backgrounds to just hold their mobile any cameras that they can get, hold on and document things many syrian so that might the war and what is happening in their home country. something will change and they believed in the

power of media because they saw what it did and the. ringback ringback i think that's basically when a lot of us again, prematurely i usually are not felt that this is a historic turning point and syria will soon become a free and democratic country where there is going to be free and independent press . and i think that's basically the moment when a lot of people became invested or interested in not just going to demonstrations, but also in creating institutions that embody the sort of democratic moment of hope . so that's basically the moment when you start to have a lot of newspapers, a lot of radio stations, a lot of online magazine, also a lot of people study organizations and obviously, you know, i mean, now in hindsight, realize this was completely naive because journalism in this in the sense or bearing witness in the sense that not actually making a huge difference the

in the house in days of the era spring algae 0 was a key punch for the move. in the month of the beams across the region and around the world has gone. let's go live to cairo. ah. in egypt things went to algebra was perceived for the 1st government elected after you before ended by mohammed morrison. and the muslim brothers resulted in the networks reputation. one that had been seen years in the making. being challenged, al jazeera, played a substantial role from its inception, really in 1980 in shifting the news agenda in such

a way to allow those who are not in government to critique those who are in before you know, and i'll just here as cameras were in the right place at the right time. raining down. be seen cnn. all the major sort of broadcast was around the world. we're picking up al just here is exclusive footage. so al jazeera was able to, to really bring the narrative of social mobilization and protest from the arab world to the world at large, and to elevate the discussion in such a way that made the aspirations of the protesters and the region. the only story worth exploring the muslim brotherhood who was perhaps the most well organized political 4th one, the election. the rules that lasted barely one year was not what people had

hoped for. corruption continued authoritarianism, continued one of the reasons that people stop following just in egypt for example, is because a lot of them felt that if this is the voice of a political formation that has failed and that has now been displaced from power, then that news outlet is no longer an important source of new ah, by 2013, the more government had been deposed in the authorities, then tried to take algae, 0 and dejection journalism down. the new government was led by military man turned president of the doctor. sees 3 al jazeera employees were among the dozens of media workers arrested on stacy's watch. the court case was a show trial. the government's evidence against al jazeera was feeble, but reputations suffered already in

that same year. on august 21st, the assad government showed it citizens and how far syria was prepared to go to suppress the kind of descent that had toppled other arab leaders. the rock slammed into the outskirts of damascus that day carried chemical. ah, and it was one of the biggest massacres more than 1500 people were killed that one . so opposed to, to shake something and enforce some kind of action or reaction. so when it didn't, then nothing we can do is going to be changing. our reality is nothing we can do or document or film or be killed for that word to stop this massacres and this horror then it's used. and that's when we've seen many of the journalists shopping this going back to their jobs, to their workshops, and just giving i think that

was a turning point. not only for sharon, in the sense that you know, the world is not going to do anything to got received from perpetrating war crimes . it was also a moment of despair for journalists around the world in defense that it completely blunted the emancipatory and incisive razor of journalism. journalism did not matter anymore. it did not make a difference anymore and doctors, lawyers, and now journalists are all organ. the government, that was the case across the middle east and north africa, the globe back against the center. and the coverage just grew worse back right now. and 2000 people have been arrested. those governments have also diversified their dissemination of propaganda out sources. what was once the responsibility of state own channel,

to privately owned some newly taken over by the state. others just eager to please egypt meeting, have proven night after night that more voices do not add up to a plurality of opinion. journalism, such a critical component at the notes of the arab spring has become one of its long term casualty. rejection state under see is not a practitioner of the old style of again, where you have the one news anchor of the state deliver your child that everybody watches who says what the leaders want you to hear. for the very 1st time, a lot of the main television channels in egypt are directly on by the egyptian military. right? this is new. this did not use to be the case. that's dynamic number one. dynamic number 2 is the unleashing of these larger than life, insufferable. personalities on talk. sure. i'll have a what. what do maggie more go ahead,

larry. aka lynn. the loud wall in these personalities tend to turn the faith narrative into an irresistible drama. yeah. there's one kid i love fog hunt good enough. that's why conspiracy theory, by theater, of the absurd by propaganda and part, political talk show that the people find irresistible. wow. yeah. and so in combination, i think these to create sort of a very toxic media here for warning. and then the regional large has some of the worst ratings. as far as the treatment of journalist, detained journalist, prosecutor, journalists, journalists, who are either exiled or sent to live abroad. one of the greatest losses in this

process is the ability to tell reality as it is the ability to relay truth to audiences and public at large. so that's a very, very hefty cost to pay. and unfortunately, it has major repercussions across the board in the sense that you only need to target a handful of journalists before the rest of them are in line. and in some countries, it wasn't just governance. so did the other actor proxy players rivals for power together managed to turn the middle east into one of the world's most dangerous places to come to scores of our journalists killed, exiled were now languishing among them. and now, just as much has been held charge in cairo for, for you. the egyptian photo journalist shop spent 6 years in prison for taking pictures in syria and was killed in

a rush. an air strike on the city of his camera was rolling as he gone in. and you can add the name of another syrian to the list of journalists taken before their time. his killing thought to be at the hands of militants, formerly affiliated without right or left a whole difficult hundreds of people as well. no serious radio host reputation could bring change to syria. i decided he was not just a journalist, he was one of the reasons why pro uprisings were able to say that it is not regime against you had, is need more of these. they are people who are fighting both parties for their own dignity for their basic. he was threatened by their jam, his house was destroyed,

and he kept refusing to stop. he kept resisting all of the facts that he was facing, establish a fresh show last year. the 1st year, which was completely based syria with tens of south poplar women. so he was that exceptional and i think that was too much for any dictator for any criminal to, to handle so many tried to kill him before. and sadly they succeeded. ah, against those challenges, there are some like shitty as our judy that have proven independent journalism can survive even flourish after the spring. it's not a mustard and inky father. internees you have done the same under different circumstances. they all offer quality reporting expertly presenting. that audience

has come to town, given the restrictions and in some cases the dangers, the reporter space. their work is all the more noted as of what he was established on in march 2012. when we realized that something unprecedented was happening in the country, and it was very important for syrians to not only be citizen journalists, simply reporting to basically provide international journalists with the footage and the raw data for, for others to come and sort of edit and analyze we need to have our own place where it wasn't just citizen journalism. it was also in depth report cards for the syrian conflict in a way not to be reduced to just the daily dest, all of its heroes, and its martyrs and its victims. but also for you to take a step back and to be able to come together to reflect and to think not only about the present, but also about the future. tommy jones on the visit to use in 5 days in independent

media outlets basting today's, which was established in 2014 by journalists, develop, and graphic design. it, although we are partners and friends with outlets like madam actually meetings, adam, real young area and many other media with the same out to want to be independent of the influence of big power to produce stories that are not big by mainstream media . and to show what they do, not necessarily want more to corner the foster mom or unless we are part of this movement of a tentative i've read the media then how trying to challenge and to inform in the way without being captive to get the report had done it, the bars were set really high by tunisia, the outcomes of which have not been reached, essentially anywhere else. but at the very least, denisia capture the imagination. there's a funny sort of figure of speech in egypt that comes from like

a reality competition shows where one of the contestants says in the gap between us, meaning that the answers is tunisia. and so the answer to every problem is authentication. and that, that's now become a figure of speech around the arab world. anytime you're wondering how things should be done, right? the answer is always tunisia. anthony has effectively demonstrated that the revolutionary potential can materialize in a positive way. i will conclude with an observations on what came at the beginning the news coverage of early 2011 when examined. in retrospect, some of the reporting was caught up in the exuberance this network, and this program included, that is not an admission of error or even even millions of people in one country after another. we're tasting freedom of expression for the very 1st time,

the voiceless. finally, telling their own stories, driving their own revolution, the journalism was a reflection and it focused on what was happening at the time. and it remains undiminished by one was. when you're standing in the moment of defeat, you are inclined to look back on the beginnings and to just completely dismiss him as childish or naive or premature. i think one of the main responsibilities that we have as journalists, if you be able to retrieve and reflect on that moment. and it's very, very important for us to be cognitive, to acknowledge historic and revolutionary nature of what happened in 2011. i think another point of view is that if you are to look at it in the long term revolutions and real transformations take decade, and this is just one of the growing pe, the period is

a growing pain on the part towards real democracy. i don't know if i believe that i want to believe that, but i can tell you this. the history is littered with examples of leaders and regimes that have curtailed human rights. have told their population that they have no agency in the country that they live in, and it has not gone well for those leaders. a day of reckoning has come the lower news, the famous julian lay right, would always say, you know, we are condemned to what else do you have? right, so i wouldn't call it and i have a day as much as i, i would call it the data hope the dash hopes of a generation 10 years of a long time. then years you have a new generation that's angry. that does not have job. that's highly educated, fluent and social media. but this cannot, cannot see

a future for itself cannot see its potential blossoming. this is an extra pollution, this is the next movement. these are the next groups of people who are going to go down on the street. smash things, challenge the existing regime. and maybe next time it will work me me. ah ah, i live in an unconventional capital city ever changing and yet forever defined by its turbulent tossed. stephanie deck meets the linen and takes you want

a journey. exploring the identity and legacy of europe's rebel capital took to al jazeera. there is no channel that covers world news like we do. we revisit places the state are really invest in that. and that's the privilege, as a journalist. ah, hello, i'm lauren taylor in london, the top stories and era. a statue of a u. s. confederate general at the center violent clashes 4 years ago, has been removed from its pedestal. in the city of charlottesville, virginia on lucas cheered as the robert e. lee monument was lifted from the plain cruise, also removed a statue of fellow confederate general thomas stonewall jackson in 2017 white supremacist protest over plans to remove the statues that clashes in which a woman was run down by a car and.