is an octave, it will be watching closely to see what the reaction of the government of president adam about it will be to the recommendations of the commission. what are the gambia preparing for presidential election in early december? the victims likes and carianne's will have to wait a bit longer for justice to be served on people. she vowed never to forgive until then she will continue to bear the burden of our anger. and the pain of losing husband, she said, meant the world to our automated rece allergies either by jo. ah, for krycek of the headlines here on the death toll from violence triggered by the rest of former of african president, jacob zoom has risen to 72 more than 1200 people have been arrested poverty unwrinkled unemployment of help fuel. the unrest south korea's report at its highest daily number of covey 19 infection. since the pandemic began,

1600 new cases were announced on the wednesday breaking a record set last week. us vice president come the harris has met with texas. democrats are hoping to derail a voting restrictions billed by republicans in the state, say the measure could prevent minorities and other disadvantage groups from costumes, banners, q that has restricted access to social media and messaging apps following rare anti government protest recordings, where u. k based monitoring groups, state media say one man died during a demonstration in havana on monday, thousands, march last weekend to protest against the economic crisis. and the government's handling of the panoramic cuba based journalist re, lindsey has moved from atlanta. a foreign minister spoke of data for jerry austin. he actually i'd say government waging a big news campaign and presented a slide showing out. there were thousands of tweets going out a creative social media campaign in the midst of all that. it's not just social media now on the internet is down generally,

i've got internet here at the office here, but industry cell data is pretty much off the people. so it's hard to say connected hard to know what's going on. exactly. but overall then i was calling today and it's sort of day to day here in cuba. more than $160.00 unmarked grains have been found in the canadian province of british columbia at the sight of a former school for indigenous children. more than a 1000 similar graves have been identified across canada. in recent months, funerals have been to help the victims of a fire at a cobra, 900 ward in the iraqi city of nasiriyah. at least 92 people are now known to have died. iraq 2nd hospital by in 3 months to shed light on what seen as widespread negligence and mismanagement in the help sector. so those were the headlines and he's continues here on now, just hear off the list and thank you and thanks so much bye. from talk to al jazeera, we roam, did you want the un to take and who stopped you?

we listen. you see the whole infrastructure and being totally destroyed. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on our sera, the one of the things that really struck me. you could feel not just that people were fearless, but that there were joyous. there was a way in which they brandished time, 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 one in ordinary lives 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. and you have to understand, 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 her single bottle with the words leave go with people laughing pictures of his face with their shoes. this was the feeling and the square. those are 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 something the witches,

cherry and 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 unique moment, a moment of possibility. the moment of rapture, where the systems of authority, where higher key begins to fall apart, fame, chance that started tenicia basically no, bob go from tenicia to syria, continued growth worth, you know, it stands in stark contrast to everything else that subsequently unfolded. but at least during those moments touch, what 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 cry. like with barbara, adopt, and ali went with in the special edition of the listening post worth 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 nivia, where the movement got to start from egypt, where it appeared to region. 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 louis were afraid, becker named mohammed was this, 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 the shock waves that would travel from north africa to the irradiance don't leave him to the regime of president bananas, created a kind of political police and the 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 are being listen old, and i want to talk 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 criticize the regime except to minority within them. and that completely changed. the feeling of fear was completely over 10, said birth mobil. lube was bubbling and internees. the 4th 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 nivia, that whole network came above tracked. once denisia became this magnet for news, what images for stories about that could be a different tomorrow. then it emerged as a note in that big network. there are so many glorious moments that are, that have now become iconic. my 1st of all, there was a short video of men and these are so walking up and down,

gave us st. tunisia shortly after the follow. been highly and he's calling 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. 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 want to show me 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 one for 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 was taken aback by what was happening and from what and then i'm sure most of

them want the one on one day why don't and there hadn't been really a symbol of the egyptian uprising. up until that moment and suddenly away when him took me egypt present. host nemo barrak was forced from power on february 11th. 4 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

one on one. and i'd like to know the unrest inferior exploded far from the capitol, 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 still going saying allow me to, 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 encourages 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 serious. so that might award what is happening and their home country. something will change and they believed in the

power of media because they saw what it did and the. ringback i think that's basically when a lot of us again, prematurely i usually or not felt that distance that historic turning point and syria will soon become a free and democratic country where there's going to 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 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

in the house in days 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 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 al jazeera, played a substantial role from its inception, really in 1009 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 vienna, and all the major sort of broadcast was around the world. what picking up here is 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 force 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 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 rockers led, slammed into the outskirts of damascus that day carried chemical weapons. and it was one of the biggest massacres more than 1500 people were killed. that one. so opposed to, 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 useless. 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 organ the government that was the case, crushed the middle east and north after millions of globe back against descent. and the coverage 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 at the notes of the arab spring has become one of its long term casualty rejection state under c. c. 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 state 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 it resistible, wow. you don't have to put in place. and so in combination, i think these to create sort of a very toxic media here on a warning, and then going to be regional large has some of the worst ratings as far as the treatment of journalists to detain, journalists, 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 then 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 charge in cairo for, for you. the egyptian photo journalist shop spent 6 years in prison for taking pictures of approach in syria and was killed in

a rush. an air strike on the city of his camera was rolling as she's 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 with our 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 uprising 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 a gm,

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 african 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 r judy that have proven independent journalism. can survive even flourish after the spring. not much of an inky father into nicea 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 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 edits 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 decimal 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, 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 yang 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 then how trying to challenge and to change form in the way without being captive to see if you can direct me the report i did not get on it. the bar was set really high by tunisia 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 show where one of the contestants says in the gap between us, meaning that the answers is denisia. 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. i will conclude with an observations on what came at the beginning. the news coverage of early 2001 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 were tasting freedom of expression for the very 1st time,

the boys 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, is to 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,

this is just one of the growing pay, the period in 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. and 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 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 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 the going to read the conservation office book, bringing nature and people together to work with what like, it's my passion. my job is linking between the content that you need in the epic and you need to find a sub or do we have to teach the community living with one lives? it's excellent, elliot limbo, riding with elliot, my son, bob boy, on al jazeera power lines, the lawns,

new babies were dying. i did not think people in power investigate, exposes, and quit. and they used them to be of our around the globe on how to ah, the ah hello, i'm darren jordan in dough. the top stories here on out 0. the death toll from days of riots and looting across south africa has risen to 72 more than 1200 people have been arrested in the violence triggered by the arrest of former president, jacob's duma poverty and record unemployment of help fuel the unrest out to 0 to me, the miller reports from janice book on this day of looting and riots. group alexandra township. in the north of johannesburg. police struggle to keep.