quite said there were not summer trials. they said that are the free trials and that they would fit the judicial process with ongoing. but at the same time they, they admitted there might have been mistakes made and if these mistakes can be corrected, so they were leaving some room open for, for people potentially being relieved. but it's, it's very hard to stay. busy at this initial stage, or what will be the result of these, of the people of these trials and what will happen to those people who are attain ah, you want to know is there with me the hill run, the reminder, volunteer stories typhoon in far is hitting heavily populated regions of eastern china, it comes days after flooding falls, the 1000000 people from their homes and killed. at least 58. thousands of people have been moved to emergency shelters. the death toll from monson floods in india has risen to 127. dozens of people still missing. not many of the victims and

roster straight were killed when landslides destroyed their homes. lord apples are expected in the coming days. in other news, another 28th of the students could not by gunman in northern nigeria, several weeks ago have been freed an official from the school and could do this and the children have been reunited with their families. more than 80 of the 121 who were taken were still being held by the kidnappers. it's one of a state of abduction for ransom in the region. in recent months, there's been more fighting between african forces and the taliban. beyond repos report to be taking control of the notary district and colonel province. the african army is trying to hold the taliban advance. meanwhile, afghans of ended the 1st night because he imposed by the government for the cool security reasons. but all 3 of the countries, 34 provinces, will be subject to new restrictions on diplomatic added to james based in cobble where he says the taliban has been gaining momentum. that in places where control

was being transferred from the government to the taliban. just because people, when the taliban arrived, put down their arms and prepared to fight. so the african government, i think, needs to get some more morale. and by doing that, it needs to consolidate its forces and try and move forward. initially though they're gonna consolidate those forces to try and protect key urban areas, and that means they are likely, i think, in the near future to lose some more of these districts. security is being boosted into the capital ahead of plan protests against the government activists. one changes to the political system, including the removal of the parliamentary speaker, has also been anger over the extension of a corona virus state of emergency until january. first of all of those stories on our website, it out there a dot com news. our huffman next fits the listing post a announcer to stay with us. we know what's happening in our region. we know how to

get to places that others cannot. i was just thrown here guy by the police on purpose. if i said i'm going, i'm going to be the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. 17 media organizations and investigated the israeli cyber surveillance company. and it was a figure by gander. the fiber history may have a list of more than 50000 phone numbers. this includes john, i mean, the pegasus, the spyware, shouldn't be afraid. nobody is safe at this. hello richard gilbert and you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is covered. here are the media stories we're examining this week. user warning for activist dissidence and journalists, the world over your mobile phones may have been compromised by spyware. that one company is selling. and authoritarian governments are by

a match made in face rockets there, billionaire payload, you said in the jeff bezos or the news outlets the cannot get enough of the story. there is a crucial election coming up in germany, and the most widely read newspaper is building up its coverage, trying to maintain its influence and cranking anti locked down protesters in the u . k. can you feel the hand of the new well hold upon us with a fake news reporter and trolling the tabloids driving the store? it has been a week now since a global consortium of media outlets blew the lid off a huge surveillance scandal revealing how the hacking to pegasus has been used by governments around the world to spy on dissidents and journalists via their mobile phones. this is not the 1st time the spyware has made headlines. pegasus is the brain child up in his really tech company, and so it came up in the investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal

shoghi, what is different this time around is the scale of the story, the leak of 50000 phone numbers belonging to some big name politicians, corporate figures, and nearly 200 journalists reportedly identified as targets of n. s. those clients. the evidence would suggest that the company has been all too willing to sell it spyware, to repressive governments known to crush the set. ultimately, this is a story about privacy, the vulnerabilities of modern technology, and the lack of regulation of a surveillance industry that's on the rise. our starting point this week is the malware that's infecting people's fall weapons and wanted to sign before they get everything, they gotta show voice the actually the camera they can read. it was like the

person that is over your shoulder and he's reading what you, what you really watch, what you're watching live, just buying your pocket. a global journalistic consortium. more than 80 reporters, 17 different news outlines in 10 countries porting over 50000 phone numbers to confirm what had long been suspected. that pegasus spyware tool developed in israel is being used by multiple governments to target the phones of opposition, figures activists, and journalists like bradley hope and rocking the thing. i'm an investigative reporter, i writing, ready? i don't for ease on private rates will be on the job of mr. second will be the golly, not one. we didn't story. so it makes me angry and i've been very, very barbie,

this whole investigation and revelations and all these newspapers, what it shows is that this is something that widespread, we've seen in the past. lots of individual cases of journalists are dissident evidence that this software has been used. but what's so powerful about this reporting is it we're seeing massive abuse of this kind of technology that was meant to be used for national security. pegasus was created by an israeli tech firm . and so and 1st surfaced in news stories in 2016. then came occasional reports of rights activists. and journalists in countries like the united arab emirates, morocco, and mexico. having their phones infiltrated, suggesting the spyware was growing popular with more and more government. the consortium proved that its work began when a list of 50000 phone numbers identified for targeting by pegasus users was leaked to paris based and g o forbidden stories. was compromised,

working along with amnesty international security, the n g a was able to identify some of the targets, including political leaders and opposition figures, as well as dozens of journals. just pretty much all of them out of the 1st investigation was to identify the ne, who was to be under from numbers the everything that's happened on the phone. some julie's human rights, defenders and pain. and then we have reasons to believe that should have been of the civilians. and would it be possible to check your phone? and this is, were rational security focusing job because they were able to set a process to know if your phone is infected by that because a software and we found traces infection inside the phone. so many people,

and those traces i don't need to suffer cuz there weren't random governments that have done business with an i, so have a lot to answer for, but most have either denied buying the spyware or are staying silent, like saudi arabia, which relied on pegasus to infect the phones of people close to your mouth. shocking before the journalist was killed by saudi operatives. i know india were prime minister modi's chief political rival, raoul gandhi, has been targeted as have reporters, including from the new site the wire. then there's mexico, its former government use the spyware on its critics, including dozens of opposition, politicians, some of whom are now in power. that started in 2017, the same year that a journalist, cecilio ping, yetta, was murdered. his phone had been hacked. we found a new phone number, some mexican germany,

and one of them was to see only 2 months after we see the numbers of the senior in the us kill. we lot of case even worry. we all colleagues, 036 in india while you were investigating people to, to, to my checklist modem, back the 50000 numbers to see if this is not checked, it, keep it in a very short time. so the b to b and it's all is very fast, the government's i'm seeing and so was last friday when it's all by weight. just really like i just saw where i'm having come up with an explanation. and so has been critical of the consortiums reporting, calling aspects of an erroneous and false. but the company doesn't help its case.

it says that its clients are contractually compelled to only use pegasus to fight serious crime and terrorism. but then admits we do not operate the system, nor do we have access to the data of our customers. and it won't even confirm or deny which governments it sells pegasus to. bombarded with questions from journalists all week. it's set us an email saying enough is enough that it will no longer be responding to media inquiries and will not play along with this vicious and slanderous campaign. they have no credibility because ultimately to say a country is contractually bound not to abuse them. but are you now going to shut down like all the countries that we now know we're abusing their. their contract though is a leading technology developer would really harm their business. because the countries that really needed the country's most likely to abuse software. so we

have a lot of explaining to do and so group has simply given us no reason to trust them . we, we have caught in lives over and over again. and left of all government describe opposition to them as serious crime and terrorism all. but one of the hallmarks of authoritarian government is that to oppose that government is to commit a serious crime or to commit terrorism saying your software is only going to be used to fight terrorism, or serious crime is absolutely not a bulwark against obese. remember when one sure fire way to prevent malware from infecting your device was to spot that dodgy looking link sent to you, and deleting it, those days are gone. pegasus is click free spyware. all it needs is your mobile number, and you can be compromised. that is why investigative reporters meeting with sources

they do not want revealed in danger. now say they will leave their phones at home. the journalists who have been targeted by peg sees are real dilemma. because they know that they're being actively targeted by a government. it becomes much more difficult for them to do their journalism and to find people who will trust them and communicate with them over the phone. so i think we're going to be looking at a lot more face to face meetings, a lot more. sort of alternative methods of communication. no more. they get into trouble that the risk of taking i, i'm not going to be very sensitive. you're getting the like, you could be with you wherever you are. 30 years into the digital age. more than 10 years after citizen journalism changed the way stories are told,

reporters and their sources are seeing their mobile phones turned against. low tech journalism is making a comeback and companies like s so and the government's using pegasus against their own people are the ones to blame. american media outlets have been feasting on a story that's more of a spectacle. the billionaire space race monoxide robbie's been examining the coverage. mean there's a reason that american journalists called the hot months of summer. the silly seas isn't there. absolutely. and this story fits the bill. we have 3 billionaires, british businessmen, richard branson, the founder of amazon, jeff pathos, and pick entrepreneur ilan musk, all 3 of them raising to reach the fringes of space in rockets developed by their teams. blantan one that contest a couple of weeks ago, but this past week it was jeff is also turn. this is the world's richest man, and most of his wealth comes from the mega corporation that he founded amazon. the

corporation avoids tax on the world. it's been criticized for not paying blue collar workers living wage and not even giving them enough time for bathroom breaks . but put bays off in a rocketship, and us media outlets tend to lose their faculty. this interview that he did with cbs this morning news show is just one example. so what's next? because just you don't have to do anything, but you choose to do one of the hardest things. well, you do the things that you're passionate about. these on the newspaper, the washington post, one of its op eds describe the billionaire space flights as important milestones. bear in mind that humans b as travel began 60 years ago, while another up had told leaders that this benefits the rest of us. let's compare and contrast the coverage of that against the coverage of another story also about the planet that is far more consequential climate change. and what we see the richard is indefensible. according to media matters for america, a u. s. based non profit, the morning news show is spent 212 minutes coveting. jeff is also

a space launch in one day. that's almost as much time as they spend covering the global climate crisis. all of last year. one example of the way in which the networks handled these stories comes in the case of climate scientists, captain. he hope she was due to appear on cnn to discuss the record breaking heat we across west or north america. but her segment was dropped in order to make room for more coverage on jeff is just the space launch. ok, thanks me. when germans go to the pores in september, they will be taking part in a watershed election voting in a new chancellor. after 16 years of anglo merkle, a major media player in that process will be build a tabloid paper that for nearly 70 years has been a shrill and provocative constant in the german political landscape. love it or hate it. few germans are ambivalent about built the influence at wheels. it remains the go to site for quick bait headlines and political scoops for readers from all

walks of life. but like most legacy media outlets build is struggling to maintain its relevance, its dealing with declining circulation. some internal upheaval and has invested heavily in online streaming and a new tv network. but listening posts flow phillips now on build. and the efforts underway to preserve the papers place at the heart of german politics. mm hm. you could say union, right? health was born for the job, a child of build, his parents met with the paper. he says that by age 13, his ambition was to become its editor in chief. build has been a companion for people over almost 70 years, describing their mood, catching what they care about catching what they feel about strongly describing that in words, people understand and giving people unique voice,

especially people that feel that they're not being hurt. but there is no question that this is also a very controversial brand, that people who strongly disagree with our inventory positions who don't like the overall general of a temple of journalism, who quite frankly despised billed. it was under the sh, bitty nice melissa, i don't read filter anymore. i simply refuse to bid aims to emotional life to sensationalize and from time to time to demonize. the actual news in formation that is useful and relevant appears in the margins, but the rest is how do i say it meaningless? stories about affairs and sex of crime and so on. my time is too precious on this is many tied to shot it the problem is for the more than half of germany that doesn't like it, filled it everywhere. kiosk, train station laundromat, anywhere germans spend that time with

a daily circulation of $1200000.00 and roughly $25000000.00 online view as a month billed is more widely read them papers like f said, deutscher and vel combined. it's a tabloid full of gossip and google, but it does politics to and its ability not just to report on events, but to influence them is why it's read by both builders on that break and government ministers in berlin. hey, it's minor. this is pointing to build, had a certain political agenda that it wants to achieve. and currently, for obvious reasons, the pandemic is a big topic when bills have played a remarkably significant role here. because i tried once again to influence politics with very clear messaging. they're not always successful, but every now and then bill do manage the shape, the national discourse with reporting that suits their own agenda. doesn't understand every single length word that for the most part is

a center right populist agenda. take, for example, a stream of anti immigrant coverage over the last few years. it's narrative around greeks out to steal german euros in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. or its depiction of german welfare recipients as lazy and parasitic. and the paper has the kind of political clout that cannot be ignored. take it from 3 from a chancellor of germany in 1909, got shrewder, announced during his 1st time. all i need to govern is build, build on sunday and the tv. he then hired a build editor, it says press secretary, true to predecessor, how much cool on another full mobile that a 10 best manage each other's wedding. and chancellor, helmut schmidt once said that starting an argument with bills would be an act of political suicide. that's how much power the paper has wielded as a german politic square foster for the mightiest doppler. the ceo of springer,

one said that whoever goes up an elevator was built, needs to be prepared to go down with them as well. a good example of this is christie and wolf. during this time, as a regional politician, he had a very close relationship with building, offering up exclusive stories about the political elite in exchange for positive coverage. however, when he became the federal president, he made it very clear to the editor at the time that he no longer appreciated what bill to doing. and that's when bills started, the kind of witch hunts against him. and they're reporting would turn even the slightest thing into a huge scandal. come off about for the bass, f soil and i presume this guy doing a blue box. i don't a tabloid, doesn't just grown someone celebrity status for no reason why. it's not the best interest to just help a politician gain popularity there in it for the circulation on the moment it became more attractive to scandalize both. that's what happened. and his reputation

was permanently destroyed, his court, buddhism, incredibly powerful organization. and the fear of being targeted by bid still influences the actions of almost every politician in the land. in their bonus, police, none in the king making power or field has always been a mess. and it would be foolish to follow that myth a couple of years ago, bill was too much part of you know, that whole favorite game between journalists and politicians that led to, you know, misreading our respective societies. and we've changed that some times reporters go under cover to get the real story. that's what going to while rested in 1977. only he was pretending to work as a build reporter in order to reveal the way the paper operated. his expose a day off marker, the lead uncovered a number of dubious journalistic practices. the picture he painted was not pretty damaged, not and took out of it. tell us to you back then. it was

a completely authoritarian system where the editor chief made all the decisions the headlines would come from the headquarters of those of us on the ground were then tasked with going out into the research. no one wanted to come back saying things were different. and that the headline was completely following. those who tried it once would be gone. they would start, i ended up after my investigation, the new editor, and she described it as having your time provided off and to time post. and he emphasized wanting to keep him open mind this really did lead to a more moderate style of reporting. but now it has returned to being a powerful smear sheet of michigan head slapped gabon. there are many germans who take issue with the paper am with right helped himself. some of them even come from within his own organization. but those points of contention. just add to the myriad challenges build faces as it tries to rectify it's 75 percent drop in circulation.

over the past 20 years, when publisher axle should bring a founded build back in 1952, he intended it to be the printed answer to television. on the right house, it isn't just print, it's online, it's live and it's very soon to be television to build live has more than 500 reporters who stream news and information. sometimes for up to 14 hours straight. when news breaks, build live is there. an anchors light pul runtime, a have been known to float that access to the powerful sometimes reading out the text messages they get from politicians live on the at most i'm a fall isn't. because our most of the sudden the home phone elite and fattano reveals the kinds of elite ism, i find it ironic that booth critic of the elite and the self proclaimed voice of

the common man. those he's about it's close relationships with those various needs . it says something about the balance and accumulation of power, and this is highly problematic from a democratic perspective to, to let us hope problematic. we're very clear about not doing any excess journalist . you know, you, you can talk to us, you will not get any favorites for us. it's your role. it's your duty as a politician to be in touch with us, to talk to us to explain what you doing. and it's our job to not fall for political spin and narratives, but to tell people our own analysis. busy of what our own report us see on the streets find out in the research and all that. so from the beginning, i felt that built has to be more political again and has to find its whole own way . a new way of telling political stories and covering politics. ah, this is an important political moment for germany and forbid, whatever union,

right has professors build currently is or isn't the paper clearly wants to make a splash in this watershed election? germany, how are you doing? that's the strap line of its election coverage. the question remains is billed asking germans how they feel or telling them. ah, finally this past week, the british government lifted almost all corona virus restrictions in england, which given that the u. k. has europe, highest rate of new infections is a controversy or move prime minister boris johnson has taken a lot of heat over the handling of the pandemic, including his decision to delay lockdown. it's one that scientists say, undoubtedly, cost lives. according to a former colleague, johnson's dithering can be traced back to the anti lockdown crusade in sections of the you case, right wing press newspapers like the daily telegraph,

where johnson used to work as a reporter and the tabloid, the daily mail, which brings us to dale maley, he's a fake journalist character, created by an actor comedian, joly, and reuben's di maley is a correspondent for the fictitious good british news. that's a play on the u. k. is new right? leading channel g b news. he went to a protest held by colbert skeptics in london. he trolled the demonstrators on the beliefs and the tabloids on their so called journalism was the next time here at the listening. mommy, what's the chin? don't be surprised if you have a child to play that because they've been looking to many of the, i don't know about you, but i'm sick of the scientific sticking a cotton bar down approach society and telling us how to live on a bunch of prior to ferry and we're going to bring them damn well do that. you have it and as you will hear, you know, signing into paul with the freedom of saying whenever you want,

can you feel the hand of the new web builder upon it? yes. and can you still feel like the hand of the illuminati here upon us? definitely, you know here, right here, but in general, yes. back. but just know here over that. definitely over that. no, it says no boss. never watch man to save you 2 minutes. none of it, i mean i actually, i actually went to the toilet 5 minutes, go to wash my hands, but you do like you do so you can just confirm you are what is it a public health emergency? are you concerned today and are you working with george stuart on the question that you all actually you won't speak about what continue wild order. as you can see here, you can see more police but more toward sources on the people i've had enough of when people have had enough. we do not taken freedom. 2 this break the young virtuoso gracie concent holds and dominating international competition.

1018, south korea's musical prodigy. one out of 0. becoming a living legend to the young age was simply not enough. he transformed his influence on the pitch into political clouds. the piece to the ivory coast posted by eric comes to football rebels, the life of drop by the football who succeeded, where politicians had not dropped the orient civil war on out there. the native means as it breaks agriculture production across the north, nigeria, greens, a serial production boat event. keep decline with detail, coverage that demands or not you've been made and ignore many times before or you're allowed to death because they say that situation is much worse from around

the world than these external affairs folks. systems is the government is following due process in the case and that authorities act against violations of law. i . this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm emily anguish the news our live from coming up in the next 60 minute. typhoon hits east in china flooding homes, businesses installing one of the busiest transport this is the weather is also disrupting the touch lympics where top athletes are already feeling they have.