this is the newest part of a growing world heritage site without borders last extended in 2017 to encompass $78.00 primeval beach forest across a dozen countries, rare areas on the content, almost unaltered by humans. however, unesco status is not always offer the protection it deserves in poland, protected trees under continuous threat from illegal logging in an area so vast. it's almost impossible to police. in yan forest, scientists have discovered an ecosystem almost untouched. rich in flora and fauna, or the last theater mom was from the plant world. we have the protected species. lillian, marty, gone from the animal world, also protected warily and bears which are protected from hunting in the nearby town of pover. their hopes the new forest status will help attract more tourists, which number only 20 last year. me said not only is chron darcia. we hope that this new unesco status will be like opening

a window to the world to show off on natural threshold. so that we can reveal how nature regulates itself and solve certain challenges and problems with our vigilant . one problem is helping to solve is climate change. with the forest storing millions of tons of carbon in the soil and biomass as unesco acts to preserve its future. it helps to preserve ours. charlie angela al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera and these on the headlines. soon as he is largest political parties, as it is ready for elections a day after the president dismissed the prime minister, unfroze parliaments. but the enough, the party is warning against the north socratic regime. thailand has reported a record number of corona virus infections for the 3rd day in a row registered for the 16 sizes you cases. 20 chang has more from bank kong.

certainly there is more testing going on at the moment, but there are many more people who want to be tested to. and i think the feeling is here, certainly amongst the general public that there is now so much coven 19 out there. and particularly with the delta variant that they are very nervous about going yeah, the government has stopped short of imposing absolute, locked down as it did at the start of the cove in 1900 epidemic pandemic last year . and that may be one of the tools they'll be considering when the curve with 1000 response team meets in bangkok. later on. today. monsoon rains in southern bangladesh have triggered a landslide at the world's largest refugee camp, killing at least 6 people. it's home for more than a 1000000, bring refugees from me and march. and that's your dates to stay with us here on al jazeera, the use continues after the listening post. motor sports is big news

in libya, but staging car and bike rather here comes with his own particular risk or club, couldn't take part in the 2016, rallied because we were fighting a war and i'll just do a world travel to the libyan just to see how full don't full wheel can be a unifying pull water country. lydia, a rally on al jazeera, 17 media organizations and investigated the israelis cyber surveillance company. and it was a figure by god. the fiber history may have a list of more than 50000 phone numbers. this includes john being had the pegasus, the spyware, shouldn't be afraid, and nobody is safe at the fire alarm. if it gets hurt 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 buy a match. maiden face rockets, they're billionaire payload. you said in the jet a, those are 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 lockdown protesters in the u. k . can you feel the hand of the new welder 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 dissidence and journalists via their mobile phones. this is not the 1st time the spyware has made headlines. pegasus is the

brain child up israeli 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 vanesso as clients. the evidence would suggest that the company has been all too willing to sell it spyware . to repressive governments known to crush to 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 phone to weapon and wanted to sign before they get anything,

they go to voice the actually the camera, they can watch it. so it's like the person that is over your shoulder and he's reading what you, what you reading was watching, what you're watching. like 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 bribery hope and rocky anything. i'm an investigative reporter, i writing 30 people. i don't. stories on private rates will be written on. i'm in charge of the,

the 2nd will be the government would not want 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 where seemed 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 our 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 4 targeted by pegasus users was leaked to a paris based n g o forbidden stories or was compromised. working along with amnesty international security, the n g o was able to identify some of the targets, including political leaders and opposition figures, as well as dozens of journals just pretty much automatic. the 1st distribution was to identify the ne, who was to be entered from numbers to everything that's happened on your phone with some dualist human rights defenders. and we told them we have reasons to believe that you have been of the civilians. and would it be possible to check your phone? and this is we're going to see rational security focusing job because they were a little just 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 into the software packages, there weren't random and the 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, shoghi, before the journalist was killed by saudi opera. 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 the phone numbers and some medic engine and one of them was only 2 months after we see the numbers of the senior in the us kill. we lot of case even worry. we all colleagues directly to india while you were investigating people to, to, to my checklist modem, back numbers to see if this is not check to keep it in a very short time. so the be to be any thought is very fast. the break government. i'm seeing and so was last friday when it's all by weight really, you know, like i just saw where i'm having come up with the peer 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 contractual 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 sent 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 these countries that we now know were 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 cotton and lives over and over again. and last of all, government describe opposition to them as furious 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. they're 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,

and 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 endangered. now say they will leave their phones at home. the journalists who have been targeted by faith or 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. 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 and 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. i 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 on to printer, ilan mosque, all 3 of them raising to reach the fringes of space in rockets developed by their teams. branson, one that contest a couple of weeks ago,

but this past week it was jeff is off 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 it 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 u. s. 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 forms and you see for the washington post, one of its op eds describe the billionaire space flights as important milestones. bear in mind that human space travel began 60 years ago, while another op 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 that

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 this 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 harold, she was due to appeared on cnn to discuss the record breaking heat. we across western 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 that wields. 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. you know, you could say you live right held 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 the people who strongly disagree with our inventory positions who don't like the overall general of a tabloid 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, so this is many times to shot it. the problem is for the more than half of germany,

that doesn't like it, filled it everywhere. kiosks, 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 valve 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. hi, michael. this is appointed to build, had a certain political agenda that it wants to achieve. and currently, for obvious reasons, the pandemic is a big topic. bills have played a remarkably significant role here because i tried once again to influence politics was very clear messaging. so 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 stronger length word that for the most part is a center right populist agenda. take, for example, in 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 on 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 his build build on sunday and the tv. he then hired to build edison narrative press secretary, true to the predecessor, how much cool on another full moville that a ton will best manage each other's wedding. and chancellor, helmut schmidt once said that starting an argument with build 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 would build, needs to be prepared to go down with them as well. a good example of this is christie and wolf. during his 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, but 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. got off about for the that's 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. they're in it for their circulations. 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 of the, in the king making power or filled 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 lead to, you know, misreading our respective societies. and we've changed that sometimes 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 expos,

a day off marker, the lead uncovered a number of dubious journalistic practices. the picture he painted was not pretty, does not enter out. did 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 as having a time previous 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 helps 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 history, news and information. sometimes for up to 14 hours straight. when news breaks, build live is there. an anchors light pool runtime, a have been known to flu, that access to the powerful sometimes reading out the text messages they get from politicians live on the most i'm a fall isn't got us 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 access to this. 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 for boot. 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 locked down 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 rubenstein. 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. you hear child say 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 ball down approach society and telling us how to live on

a bunch of time in the ferry. and i'm going to bring them damn well do that. you have it. and as you're here, you know, signing into paul with the freedom of saying whenever you want, can you feel the hand of the new well, border opponent. 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 here over that i definitely over that. now it says my boss, never watch man 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 i can i just confirm you are what is it a public health emergency? are you concerned today an are you working with george? start on the question that you all actually you won't speak about what continue wild order. you can see here. you can see more policeman, more towards sources on the people i've had enough of when people have had enough. we do not taken freedom. 2 brita brita,

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more people who want to be tested to and i think the feeling is here certainly amongst the general.