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people a various points throughout havana and other cities. so it's one of the learning. these are the biggest political process and i can pick up the last 3 decades since 19 nineties. the all my husband just took away from, from where i can see it is as young as i'm a good income child is on the t shirts getting, getting all my bills and mobilized for this washington is wanting china that any attack on the philippines in the south china sea, you draw a u. s. response. under neutral defense treaty. the repeated warning comes as hundreds of activist manila rallied on the 5th anniversary ruling against china's claim to territory in the south china sea. the highly contagious delta variant is being blamed for a rapid rise in corona virus and infections. in se, asia, indonesia is recording more than 35000 cases. the de tyler has gone into lockdown

for 2 weeks. while south korea have has imposed tough restrictions. italy have beaten england to win football european championship for the 1st time since $900.00 . $68.00 to find the london finish and $1.00 to $1.00 throw off the extra time. it was italy who then held in triumph and the penalty should. billionaire richard branson has flown to the edge of space fulfilling a life long dream and taking a great leap towards making space tourism a reality. virgin galactic wing the rocket reached 80 kilometers above the surface . the a former police officer at 10, a tory of gang leaders asking his supporters to join, must protest and haiti, jimmy busy as accusing opposition. party plotting 70 noises, murder us to send delegation to a, to the 5th in the investigation into his assassination. those are the headlines. news continues, he announces era off of the listing that you've been watching bye for now. something was going to change. has anything really changed?

this is systemic violence that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the barrier and know what to say. so we are all saying we're looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just there on me, the one of the things that really struck me, you could feel not just that people were fearless, but that they were joyous. that was the way in which they brandished tine. 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 about

more than one. and 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. 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 me, 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 were the slogans you heard. and it was the calculus. until now it feels like a dream. i remember the 1st shot from the best people were the people won't be 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 uniqueness of that moment. the moment of possibility, the moment of rapture, where the systems of authority, where hierarchy begins to fall apart, fame chance that starting to basically snowball, go from tunisia to syria, as continue to grow worth. 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 2010. 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 borrowing, adopting that ali, went with in the special edition of the listing post worth taking a retrospective. look at what happened, 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 nicea where the movement got to start from egypt, where it appeared to reach a tight 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 were straight 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 was busy his life and ultimately set off shop ways that would travel from north africa to the irradiance don't leave him to the idea of the regime of president when 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 the wolf. and we can do old 90 on the to thought 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 dang, criticize 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 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 sphere to begin exchanging information to create networks, once the uprising started into an easier, that whole network came above the draft. once denisia became this magnet for knew what images for stories about that could be a different tomorrow, then emerge as a note in that big network. there's so many glorious moments that are, that have now become iconic. my personal favorite. there was a short video of the men and these are so walking up and down, gave

a st. tunisia shortly after the following. been highly and he is hiring people in their homes on an empty street telling them 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 money. 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 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 way 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 with a real turning point, one of 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 unleashed was so taken aback by what was happening and from what i can shop then i'm sure that you want one

moment and there hadn't been really a symbol of the egyptian uprising up until that moment. and suddenly way him took me 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 of the national

want on money like to miss the unrest in syria exploded far from a capital graffiti written by a student on the school wall in the border city of a message for the president in new york turn at the beginning of this year and uprising. we've heard so many spoken saying and gather which is period space media is 9. there were this sense that you are witnessing. they are being manipulated and presented in a completely opposite way on the state media. that encouraged many people who were students who wear and the christians carpenters and different kind of backgrounds to just hold their mobile any cameras that they can get, hold on and document things. many serious. so that might showings award. what is happening in their home country,

something would change and they believed in the power of media because they saw what it did and the. ringback ringback ready i 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 at 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, saudi 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 era spring algae 0 was a key conjure. for the move in the beaming across the region and around the world has gone. let's go live to cairo. me say that he's been in egypt. things much algae 0. proceed for the 1st government elected after the fall of handed 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. busy played a substantial role from its inception really in 1996 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 hear you. cameras were in the right place at the right time, raining down b, c, d, and, and all the major sort of broadcasters around the world. we're picking up our exclusive footage. so al jazeera was able to, to really bring the narrative of social mobilization and protests from the arab world to the world at large and to elevate the discussion in such a way that made the aspirations of the protestors 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 i just united 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 me 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 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 that day 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 word to stop this massacres and this horror then it's used. that's when we've seen many of the joint 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 and doctors, lawyers, and now journalists are all in the government that cases crushed the middle east and north africa, the globe back against the center. and the coverage just grew worse, back in each room. 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 own,

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 of the notes of the arab spring has become one of its long term casualties. the 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 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 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. sure. i'll have a what, what the man,

the 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. and 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 the region and 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 the scores of our journalists killed, exiled were now languishing channel among them. and now, just as much has been held without charge in cairo for, for you. the egyptian photo journalist shop spent 6 years in prison for taking pictures of approaches 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 that time. his killing thought to be at the hands of the militants formerly affiliated without left a whole difficult hundreds of people as well. no serious radio full 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, but he was facing, established 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 get 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 much of an inky father. internees you have done the same under different circumstances. they all offer quality reporting expertly presenting that audience have 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 the 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 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 communities which

was established in 2014 by journalists develop and graphic designers. although we are partners and friends with outlets like madam and 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 unless we are part of this movement of a tentative i've read the media that you're trying to challenge and to inform in the way without being captive too. if you can direct me the report, i didn't do it. the bars was that really high bite denisia of 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 show where one of the contestants says in the gap between us, meaning the, the answers is denisia. 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 though even millions of people in one country after another were 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 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 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 cognizant 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 pay period and 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 julian lay right, would always say, you know, we are condemned to hope. what else do you have? right, so i would have call it and i have a day as much as i, i would call it the dash 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 this cannot, cannot see

a future for itself cannot see its potential blossoming. this is the next evolution . 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. oh welcome to portal your gateway to the very best to volunteer or an online content that you may have met. a new program that this through our platforms, makes the connections and presents a digestible scene, each the award winning online content on their audience portal with me founder gotten on to 0 me a thief controller story without uttering a single word, liam,

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