the drivers with temporary work visas, but the government has refused saying firms mis find domestic drivers instead. but there is no pool of qualified drivers in the u. k. just sitting around and peak delivery season is just around the corner. charlie angela audi 0, sorry. ah, hello there. this is al jazeera, these are the headlines. the party of ethiopia prime minister men has won a landslide victory and june 21st election, assuring him a 2nd time. and often the vote though is overshadowed by an opposition boy called ethnic violence. and the conflict in the northern region to cry was one of 3 of either of these 10 regions where voting didn't even take place. catherine sawyer, in the capital, addis ababa with mall. this announcement really comes as no surprise of prime minister. abe's post. i'll be amid, as far as the party has been leading from the very start. and it's also an election

really that has been voice portal was point quoted by some of the country's biggest opposition parties in the lead up to the election. some opposition leaders was arrested all for voting. does not take place at all in dozens of constituencies because of security problems. at least 8 people have been killed and 8 others injured in a large explosion in somalia as capital. nobody shoot a car bomb, targeted police commander, colonel 500100 agent. he survived the attack. the widow of haiti is assassinated, president has accused political enemies of organizing his killing to stop democratic change, montana waves, who is herself injured, and the attack was speaking for the 1st time since her husband juvenile was shot dead at their home. on wednesday, a statue of us confederate general robert e. lee has been removed from the city of charlottesville, virginia,

many black lives matter. the board has got the bed, witnessed the removal of the monument. it was at the center of a violent white supremacist rally 4 years ago. now. the leaders of north korea and china have vowed just a few greater cooperation according to the young, young, official news agency and trading of messages north korean. the they came and said cooperation was vital in the face of hostile foreign forces. china's she's been paying for this to take their partnership to a new stage. and argentina have won their 1st major football trophy since 1993. they've beaten, defending champions, brazil, one mill and the corporate america final and beer, diginero angels, the maria school, the sole goal for argentina. and the 22nd minute there was widespread criticism though of the decision to even allow brazil to stage the month long event. well, those are the headlines. i'll be more news here on out 0 after the listening post the teaching news, you can watch out for english streaming live and i do see channels plus thousands

of our programs award winning documentaries and get new support. a scribe. you choose dot com, forward slash al jazeera english. the one of the things that really struck me. you could feel not just that people were fearless, but that they were joyous. there was a way in which they brandished sign, the ways in which they screamed political slogans that made you feel that these people had no constraint. if 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. or more and

more than there have been so many times since 2011 when i have 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 with walking into the square in 2011 and having pictures of him, a lot of with the words leave go with people slapping pictures of his face with their shoes. this was the feeling and the square. those are the slogans you heard. and it was the class. until now it feels like a dream. i remember the 1st shot to the master. some people were something

which is jerry and people won't be humiliated to have the chance or the hope for free press, for some kind of freedom expression. that was a dream. and that's the uniqueness of that moment. the moment of possibility, the moment of rapture, where the systems of authority, where hierarchy begins to fall apart. the same chance that starting to basically no ball go from tenicia to syria, as continued to grow, where it stands in stark contrast to everything else that subsequently unfolded. but at least during those moments touch, what glorious future stories in awe

out on 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 borrow, adopting 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. the remain in place that we've chosen to focus on the stories of 3 countries to nicea where the movement got to start egypt, where it appeared to read your pipes and syria where it hit

a brick wall. the arab springs starting point came on december 17th, 2010 in the small, central tennessee and city of city with the state vector named mohammed boy fed up with local official corruption. unable to make a living himself, 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 iranian don't leave him to the idea of if the regime of president been and he 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 that was real and we can do old 90 only to talk even families inside their own home. if not that i speak about been id and obviously people didn't know that to post on social networks or discuss what was

happening in the media. did not criticize the regime except to minority within them . and that completely changed. the feeling of fear was completely over 10, said birth a couple more, but really what was bubbling in 24th was a 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 about the draft. once tunisia became this magnet for news, but images for stories about that could be different tomorrow, then emerge as a note in that big network. there's so many glorious moments that are, that have become icon in my personal lives with there was a short video of the men in the cities are so walking up and down gave us street

tunisia shortly after the follow up in the early and he's calling people in their homes now on an empty street telling me there's nothing to be afraid of. you are now free. in his voice. you am to 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 money. and one of the more remarkable things that happened in 2011 and certainly in the square was this sort of out. but the of language and terminology words like

democracy, freedom just that's right. the protesters in the square frame, their demands and articulate to using a right framework. one huge moment was when one of the who is a very famous presenter, egyptian television interviewed waiting on em, who had just been released from prison. and that into view which it felt like the entire 100000000, the population of egypt watched, was 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 of the activist who didn't realize what he had unleashed when so taken aback by what was happening and from what and that's about it. and then i'm sure

one moment a lot of time and there hadn't been really a symbol of the egyptian uprising up until that moment. and suddenly way him took me in egypt, president, 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 of varying degrees. some met their citizens demand 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 general manager

was like to miss the unrest in syria exploded. far from the capital graffiti written by a student on the school wall in the border city of data. a message for the president in new york turned back at the beginning of this year and uprising. we've heard so many spoken saying allow me to, to gather which is here you 9, there were this sense that you are witnessing of them. and they are being manipulated and presented in a completely opposite way on the state media. that encourage many people who were students who wear and the confessions carpenters and different kind of backgrounds to just hold their mobile any cameras that they can get, hold on comment thinks many serious. so that my showing the word 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 i. ringback ringback think that's basically when a lot of us again, prematurely now, usually or not, felt that this is a historic turning point and syria will soon become a free and democratic country where there is gonna 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 magazines. 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 make a huge difference.

the health of the arab spring al jazeera was a key conjure for the beaming across the region and around the world has gone. let's go live to cairo. in egypt, things algebra was perceived for the 1st government. i'd like to ask you before handed by mohammed morrison, and the muslim brothers resulted in the networks reputation. one that had been seen years in the making being of the work played a substantial role from its inception really in 1096 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 the bbc mm. cnn. all the major sort of broadcast was around the world . we're picking up here as 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 won 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 morsey 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 seas. 3 al jazeera employees were among the dozens of media workers arrested one species watch. the court case was a show trial. the government's evidence against al jazeera was feeble, but reputations suffered already in the

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 back. they carried chemical weapons. ah, and it was one of the biggest massacres more than 1500 people were killed about one . so it's supposed to shake something in for 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 where the 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 receive 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. doctors lawyers and now journalists are all the organ, the government that was the case, crushed the middle east and north after the blow back against the sensor. and the coverage of it just grew worse, back in egypt right now. and 2000 people have been arrested. those governments have also diversified, their dissemination of propaganda. outsourcing 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, outset of the arab spring has become one of its long term casualty. egyptian state . under c, c is not a practitioner of the old style of game where you have the one news anchor of the state deliver your child that everybody watches who says what the leaders wants you to hear. for the very 1st time, a lot of the main television channels in egypt are directly owned by the egyptian military. right? this is new. this did not used to be the case. that's dynamic number one. dynamic number 2 is the unleashing of these larger than life, insufferable. personalities on talk show and then you have what, what the met,

the more go ahead. larry, aka file. and she, when the lab walk in these personalities tend to turn the faith narrative into an irresistible drama. yeah. there's one kid i love fog. i'm going to love that 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 on a warning. and i know the region a large has some of the worst ratings, as far as the treatment of journalist and detain 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 government journals. 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? scores of journalists killed, exiled were now languishing among them. now just my change has been held without charge in cairo for, for you. the egyptian photo journalist shop spent 6 years in prison for taking pictures of a protein in syria kill in

a russian 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 that time. his killing thought to be at the hands of the militants, formerly affiliated with our right and left a whole difficult hundreds of people as well. no serious radio reformation could bring change to syria. so i decided he was not just a journalist. he was one of the reasons why for sizing we're able to say that it does not regime against your head is more. 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, but he was facing establish your fresh show last year. the 1st year, which was completely based and had carry out 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 the against those challenges. there are some like hideous algebra that have proven independent journalism. can survive even flourish after the spring, egypt not enough, an inky father into nicea have done the same under different circumstances. they all offer quality reporting expertly presenting. that audience has come to value,

given the restrictions, and in some cases the danger is 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 the syrians to not only be citizen journalists simply report things 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 taj for the syrian conflict in a way, not to be reduced to just the daily dest, all of its heroes, and it's martyrs, and it's victims. but also for students 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. on the, on the visit to use in dies and 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, real young, syria and many other media with the same out to the 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 and we are part of this movement of a tentative i've read the media then how trying to challenge and to change form in the way without being captive to get the report i didn't do it, the bars were set really high by tenicia of the outcomes of which have not been reached, essentially anywhere else. but at the very least, denisia captured the imagination. there's a funny sort of figure of speech in egypt that comes from like

a reality competition shop where one of the contestants says in the gap between us, meaning that the answers is tenicia. and so the answer to every problem is often to mention 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. we'll conclude with an observations on what came at the beginning news conference or 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 though 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. it focused on what was happening at the time, and it remains undiminished by what was. when you're standing in the moment of defeat, you are inclined to look back on the beginnings and to just completely dismiss them as childish or naive or premature. i think one of the main responsibilities that we have as journalists, is to be able to retrieve and reflect on that moment. and it's very, very important for us to be cognizant to acknowledge historic and revolutionary nature of what happened in 2011. i think another point of view is that if you were to look at it in the long term revolutions and real transformations take decade, and this is just one of the growing pay period,

the 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 union 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 dashed 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 a job. that's highly educated, fluent and social media. but us cannot, cannot see

a future for itself cannot see its potential blossoming. this is an extra solution . this is the next moment. 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. i live in an unconventional capital city, ever changing and yet forever defined bytes turbulent past. stephanie deck meets the linens and takes you on a journey. exploring the identity and legacy of europe's rebel capital took out just going to read the conservation of the book, bringing nature and people together to work with what like my passion, my job is linking to the content. and what do you need in the epic and you need to

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